I hear it all the time and I always thought it is when you can’t stop scrolling? And it’s a bad thing too. So could you maybe give an example and explain what it is and say why it is so bad?
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A little more specific than the other answers: doomscrolling is when you can’t stop reading your personal news feed, especially when it’s all bad news.
* Tends to refer to social media/info sites – originally it referred almost exclusively to Twitter, now would generally include Instagram and the ‘Tok
* Tends to refer to news that 1) you think is bad, and 2) entirely out of your control
* Term became popular during Trump presidency, and then COVID – lots of people going “guh, can you believe this shit, we’re so fucked” over and over again
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