doomscrolling

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Doomscrolling is the cycle of obsessively consuming social media, enabled by their typical infinite scroll UI, in search of clarity for anxieties that are ironically fueled by those same social media feeds.

How to not

• How not to: (IG multipost text as pics, please feel free to expand into actual text) https://www.instagram.com/millennial.therapist/p/CYRWUfBsMo9/

Origin

• Apparent origin: https://twitter.com/Callamitys/status/1049014001831763968
  • "Taking a break from doomscrolling and being inundated with things and stuff. I'll be back tuesday or something. Here's a thing I'm making." @Callamitys October 7, 2018

Articles

• 2020-06-25 WIRED: Doomscrolling Is Slowly Eroding Your Mental Health
• 2020-07-19 NPR: Your 'Doomscrolling' Breeds Anxiety. Here's How To Stop The Cycle
• 2020-07-30 Washington Post: The Internet wants to keep you ‘doom-scrolling.’ Here’s how to break free.

Humor

• “Sucks the life/From my eyes/It feels nice/I'm scrolling, I'm scrolling, ah” https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=qXX05S6tiRk&feature=share

See Also

• social media
• https://endlessdoomscroller.com/
• Doom in feeds you read is good for re-engagement and thus profit: https://twitter.com/schwanksta/status/1331260696047341569
  • "Something we intuitively know, but good to see so plainly: Facebook monetizes your anger, and removing content that materially makes the world worse is a threat to its bottom line." @schwanksta November 24, 2020
• icon: https://www.instagram.com/p/CWGX3sINRpe/
• icon: https://thenounproject.com/term/doom-scrolling/4367571
• How to not, 13 post tweet storm: https://twitter.com/jamestplunkett/status/1573647218820747266 (needs in-line summarizing)
  • "Oof, the doom-scroll is especially doomy today. Three thoughts on staying positive. 🧵" @jamestplunkett September 24, 2022
• https://fosstodon.org/@vjprema/113219908636068746
  • "The mainstream internet lures us with dopamine, kills our creativity, makes us into sad noisy powerless complainers, expends our time on pointless distraction, buries the pathways to escape... then empties our wallets.Don't complain. Just leave. Help build the alternative 💪#Enshittification #indieweb #fediverse #OpenSource #selfhost" @vjprema September 29, 2024