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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Doom scrolling is essentially a feedback loop for people who spend a lot of time online, they interact with posts about politics or Global affairs or climate change, any number of issues, with essentially a lot of bad news and projections of Doom
As they interact with this stuff the website learns from their data and gives them more, and before long they are endlessly scrolling through a bunch of Doom and Gloom the world is ending material, which is not great for one’s Mental Health
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