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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> I always thought it is when you can’t stop scrolling?
It’s more like “you can’t stop scrolling and reading negative content that is making you feel bad”.
There’s a major problem with the way information is presented to the user right now. In short, negative content tends to drive more engagement than positive content and the system is designed to feed you more things that you engage with *regardless of why you engaged with it*.
We’ve unlocked some really cool tech with things like AI and algorithms that are looking to match people with content and drive engagement. But unfortunately, we’ve not yet built any safeguards for how those things function. The result is that you have people who legitimately believe that things are worse than they are, that are scrolling through story after story of awful things in the world completely unaware of the broader picture. A very common example is that many people in the US think violent crime is on the rise… except the data shows that violent crimes are generally on a downward track.
The old adage “if it bleeds it leads” still holds true, but now people are seeing nothing but the bleeding.
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