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> People aren't feeling bad because of continuous scrolling on news and social media. People are looking for something to take their minds off whatever difficul
by skohan 5y ago
> People aren't feeling bad because of continuous scrolling on news and social media. People are looking for something to take their minds off whatever difficulty they are facing.
It can be both right? For instance with substance abuse, part of the "vicious cycle" is that when addicts are feeling stressed, they reach for their drug of choice rather than actually solving the problems which are making them stressed.
- alpaca128 5y agoIt's absolutely both to some degree. When someone's trying to distract themselves on the web and then reads headlines about some new desaster or another case of corruption it's not going to improve their mental state. There's always something bad happening somewhere in the world.