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When I first heard the term "doom scrolling," I thought it was something along these lines. Scrolling some feed or another, past the point when you should have
by jrowen 5y ago
When I first heard the term "doom scrolling," I thought it was something along these lines. Scrolling some feed or another, past the point when you should have moved on, to avoid confronting these types of tasks for just a bit longer.
That to me feels like a much deeper and more terrifying doom than simply reading bad news.
- _0ffh 5y agoIt seems to me that doom scrolling is the web equivalent of old TV's zapping phenomenon, where people just keep cycling through the stations in the hope that on some channel something interesting will pop up, sooner or later.
- piva00 5y agoIt feels the same, talking with my therapist she summarised it to me with a question: "is that a feeling like wanting to eat something that doesn't exist?" and since then I kept that in my mind. I doom-scroll/TV-zap usually without even knowing what I want, I just want something that will satisfy this "food that doesn't exist" appetite. I hate it.