Fed Up With Endless Gloom Social Media Users Are Pulling Back
Doomscrolling, of course, is that dopamine-fueled compulsion to keep up with dire news delivered in an unending scroll to your smartphone’s social-media app of choice. The phenomenon, popularized by journalist Karen K. Ho, is thought to be a factor in the rise in social-media use since March, when the pandemic crisis began spreading in earnest. News and social networking apps saw a surge in downloads in the United States as a result of the lockdown, which grew by 44....