ReanuKeeves@lemm.ee to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoDid people experience doom scrolling with newspapers and magazines?message-squaremessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up146
arrow-up146message-squareDid people experience doom scrolling with newspapers and magazines?ReanuKeeves@lemm.ee to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square15fedilink
minus-squareoceanAlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoYou’re probably right that the news has always done this but I think OP is asking more broadly. I wonder if this can apply elsewhere? Could reading like crazy be doomscrolling? Or kids only reading comics all day? Probably not.
minus-squareDagwood222@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoAny problem of the past has been ramped up to 11 by the interwebs.
You’re probably right that the news has always done this but I think OP is asking more broadly. I wonder if this can apply elsewhere? Could reading like crazy be doomscrolling? Or kids only reading comics all day? Probably not.
Any problem of the past has been ramped up to 11 by the interwebs.