I think infinite scroll is, for the most part, a lazy design pattern that tries to take advantage of our laziness. Every time I go to Facebook, I want to catch

I think infinite scroll is, for the most part, a lazy design pattern that tries to take advantage of our laziness. Every time I go to Facebook, I want to catch up on the latest shares from the people and pages I care about. I only need up to the last article I read, then I'm done. It's queue processing, not television watching. You should be able to get to the end of the feed. Instead it just starts rehashing old content. Certain applications do more resemble television watching, where there's way more content than you could ever fit into a processable queue. Instagram, for instance. What I want there is for pics I've seen to get marked as seen and not come up again. Here infinite scroll makes sense. Another interesting example in this space is Tinder. I'd like an Instagram-like experience for Tinder. Instead of having to swipe to see a new pic, I should just be able to scroll, and already-seen pics are treated the way left-swipes are.