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user-inactivated  ·  3058 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: New Hubski Users (and old), what are your hobbies?

I still struggle to understand why some people put "listening to music" as a hobby. It sounds like a petty excuse for having one: most of all people on the planet listen to music in some capacity; whether it's great or small doesn't matter. It's like putting "watching TV" or "shopping for groceries" under hobbies: pointless.

Your writing reviews for the music you listen to, though? That's a hobby. Writing music? Another one. Programming? There you go. All are proper activities in which not the absolute majority of the developed world is involved. Hobbies are activities that distinguish you, that make you you, and I can't grasp how doing that thing that 90% of the developed world population does makes you any different.

Do explain if you can. I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around music listening being a hobby.