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I read that comment's "doom scrolling" as implying that it intentionally watched negative-emotion-producing-material. Is this an incorrect reading? If so how

by nullc 2y ago

I read that comment's "doom scrolling" as implying that it intentionally watched negative-emotion-producing-material. Is this an incorrect reading? If so how does "doom scrolling" differ from "scrolling"?

droopyEyelids 2y ago
I want to answer your question, but i don’t know what “negative-emotion-producing-material” means, nor how to look up definitions. Could you type out an explanation by hand for me?
- fragmede 2y ago
  Stuff that makes you feel bad; about the state of the world or just life. Helpless, powerless. A story about how orphans died because a billionaire bought the building and kicked then out. Somebody's pet dying. A big corporation steam rolling little people. A friend getting cancer. War.
  - droopyEyelids 2y ago
    OK, doom scrolling is “scrolling compulsively” without intention, and with the vague feeling that time would be better spent elsewhere. It doesn’t have to do with the content.
rcxdude 2y ago
I generally interpret "doomscrolling" as "compulsive scrolling", e.g. whem someone is bored and just keeps going through one of the infinitly scrolling social media feeds.
- AlecSchueler 2y ago
  Bored or tired or just "filling in time" at e.g. a bus stop. That is, times when your energy isn't completely there for making sure you do everything right to manage your micro-behaviours (things like not hovering too long or reading too many comments on a post) in order to curate your feed.
berdario 2y ago
The difference is in the material that you end up consuming. It's not necessarily an intentional act: it might be that... - the algorithms are pushing you depressing/apocalyptic content, because it increases engagement - you intentionally followed people because of their technical or political insights... And these people (often because of world events), end up propagating depressing/apocalyptical news (this doesn't imply any ill intent on their part... It might be genocide, or it might be something milder as layoff, but if you're often writing about technical topics, mentioning layoffs in IT shouldn't be too surprising for anyone) PS: also of course from the name itself (doomscrolling), there's the acknowledgement that this is an activity that doesn't make you feel better. Which means that the non-intentionality interpretation should be considered more important. In fact, complaining about doomscrolling, can be seen either as criticism of modern media algorithms, or as criticism of the state of the world

by nullc 2y ago

droopyEyelids 2y ago

I want to answer your question, but i don’t know what “negative-emotion-producing-material” means, nor how to look up definitions. Could you type out an explanation by hand for me?

fragmede 2y ago
Stuff that makes you feel bad; about the state of the world or just life. Helpless, powerless. A story about how orphans died because a billionaire bought the building and kicked then out. Somebody's pet dying. A big corporation steam rolling little people. A friend getting cancer. War.
- droopyEyelids 2y ago
  OK, doom scrolling is “scrolling compulsively” without intention, and with the vague feeling that time would be better spent elsewhere. It doesn’t have to do with the content.

rcxdude 2y ago

I generally interpret "doomscrolling" as "compulsive scrolling", e.g. whem someone is bored and just keeps going through one of the infinitly scrolling social media feeds.

AlecSchueler 2y ago
Bored or tired or just "filling in time" at e.g. a bus stop. That is, times when your energy isn't completely there for making sure you do everything right to manage your micro-behaviours (things like not hovering too long or reading too many comments on a post) in order to curate your feed.

berdario 2y ago

The difference is in the material that you end up consuming. It's not necessarily an intentional act: it might be that... - the algorithms are pushing you depressing/apocalyptic content, because it increases engagement - you intentionally followed people because of their technical or political insights... And these people (often because of world events), end up propagating depressing/apocalyptical news (this doesn't imply any ill intent on their part... It might be genocide, or it might be something milder as layoff, but if you're often writing about technical topics, mentioning layoffs in IT shouldn't be too surprising for anyone) PS: also of course from the name itself (doomscrolling), there's the acknowledgement that this is an activity that doesn't make you feel better. Which means that the non-intentionality interpretation should be considered more important. In fact, complaining about doomscrolling, can be seen either as criticism of modern media algorithms, or as criticism of the state of the world