Can confirm, am doomscrolling and not enjoying it right now!
FaceMace87 on
I was one of these for a long time but over a several month period I realised it was providing absolutely no benefit to my life whatsoever and was very detrimental to my mental health.
Since I drastically cut back the time I spent doomscrolling I have picked back up 2 old hobbies, Warhammer painting and Darts.
Key-Room5690 on
Hard to comment on this one on Reddit without looking like a hypocrite.
On the bright side these sorts of articles always remind me to get off my phone and do what I’m supposed to be doing, so laters all!
Cheap-Rate-8996 on
I’ve never used TikTok or Youtube Shorts and everything I hear about them make me feel like I’ve missed out on precisely nothing.
rev9of8 on
According to my Reddit ‘achievements’, I was in the first ten thousand redditors to scroll one million banana lengths… I *may* have a problem.
Slapped91 on
Yeah, I’m going to stop doing this. After returning to the UK after 20 years it’s utterly depressing to see how violent, both physically and vocally, the left wing has become in my absence.
The left wing used to be tolerant and well meaning back in the day, but now they’re coming across very much as authoritarian facists.
Yep, time to stop doomscrolling.
pdirth on
Given how the world is, isn’t” doomscrollling” just the same as “going online” nowadays.
JoelMahon on
if anyone wants tips on how to break this habit as I have:
don’t cold turkey, as part of my approach I can see the top 25 posts from two small multis on reddit, and I still get my youtube subscriptions.
what I have blocked using ad blockers (ublock let’s you pick an element and create a filter, most ad blockers have this feature, might take some practice if you’re not technical) is:
1. youtube shorts
2. I use youtube unhook (browser extension) to block youtube home i.e. the doom feed, as well as suggestions below videos.
3. unhook started failing to block end of video suggestion videos so I ublocked them myself
4. blocked reddit home and r/home and actually I blocked all of reddit except a whitelist of subs like this one
5. blocked the next page button even when in my few remaining subs
6. use old reddit and limit posts per page to 25
7. made a multi of news subs, and a multi of my hobby subs
8. unsubbed from channels that often put out long but meh quality content, I only have one let’s play channel that uploads daily left of about 40mins each which I watch at 2x speed so only eats up 20 mins of my day, my others are often once a month but rarely more than once a week
and then the rest is resisting your inner demon (inner monologue really, demons aren’t real) telling you to disable your own setup
after I’ve finished all my yt subscription videos and looked at my two reddit multis I have nothing more to doomscroll and so just stop, has worked wonders but nothing is magic, you can lead yourself to water but these tricks won’t do the drinking for you, you have to ignore your inner bad advice fairy
Icy-Tear4613 on
Anyone who posted on this so quickly giving advice about doom scrolling is funny.
WanderlustZero on
Every time a new war or near-war starts, I’m not sleeping for a week. And it seems to be every week :’)
ChaiTeaAndBoundaries on
About the only thing that doesnt cost money. Once you step out of your home, your bank account cries.
rdu3y6 on
Luckily, you’ll need to give away your ID or use a VPN to enjoy doomscrolling soon. Might reduce it somewhat?
LastTrainToLhasa on
We have a major issue worldwide with doomscrolling and social media addiction that’s ruining everyone’s lives and psyche, and nobody is addressing this, we’re doomed.
Imago_x on
Deactivated my Twitter and Facebook 2 weeks ago. Never felt so free
jembella1 on
i am struggling with this more and more. trying to get back to enjoying things. the bigger things i know i can’t do anything. brain feels like i can beyond logic. just odd.
OddDark8388 on
I deleted my Facebook and TikTok, but I’m still doing this shit here and on various news sites. I hate how addicted to it I’m realising I am. Think I might need to just rid of as much internet-enabled tech as I can really to try to eradicate this, but it’s strange, I think if I do that, I will feel extremely disconnected. It’s like I feel this need to know what’s going on in the world at all times. It’s not good for my health at all but feels more addictive than drugs.
Outrageous_Prior_787 on
Yeah TikTok kept me up until 3:00am one morning… Uninstalled that shit.
Granted, adults should be allowed to consume media how and when they please. However, I think its time we start looking in to laws to prevent the use of predatory engagement algorithims (especially those farming negative emotions like rage bait) to capture and keep attention.
It isn’t good for us.
Astriania on
It’s super addictive and completely valueless, for most of us it would be great to just stop engaging with social media completely.
1bryantj on
It’s honestly Reddit, this app I go to without even thinking about it
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Can confirm, am doomscrolling and not enjoying it right now!
I was one of these for a long time but over a several month period I realised it was providing absolutely no benefit to my life whatsoever and was very detrimental to my mental health.
Since I drastically cut back the time I spent doomscrolling I have picked back up 2 old hobbies, Warhammer painting and Darts.
Hard to comment on this one on Reddit without looking like a hypocrite.
On the bright side these sorts of articles always remind me to get off my phone and do what I’m supposed to be doing, so laters all!
I’ve never used TikTok or Youtube Shorts and everything I hear about them make me feel like I’ve missed out on precisely nothing.
According to my Reddit ‘achievements’, I was in the first ten thousand redditors to scroll one million banana lengths… I *may* have a problem.
Yeah, I’m going to stop doing this. After returning to the UK after 20 years it’s utterly depressing to see how violent, both physically and vocally, the left wing has become in my absence.
The left wing used to be tolerant and well meaning back in the day, but now they’re coming across very much as authoritarian facists.
Yep, time to stop doomscrolling.
Given how the world is, isn’t” doomscrollling” just the same as “going online” nowadays.
if anyone wants tips on how to break this habit as I have:
don’t cold turkey, as part of my approach I can see the top 25 posts from two small multis on reddit, and I still get my youtube subscriptions.
what I have blocked using ad blockers (ublock let’s you pick an element and create a filter, most ad blockers have this feature, might take some practice if you’re not technical) is:
1. youtube shorts
2. I use youtube unhook (browser extension) to block youtube home i.e. the doom feed, as well as suggestions below videos.
3. unhook started failing to block end of video suggestion videos so I ublocked them myself
4. blocked reddit home and r/home and actually I blocked all of reddit except a whitelist of subs like this one
5. blocked the next page button even when in my few remaining subs
6. use old reddit and limit posts per page to 25
7. made a multi of news subs, and a multi of my hobby subs
8. unsubbed from channels that often put out long but meh quality content, I only have one let’s play channel that uploads daily left of about 40mins each which I watch at 2x speed so only eats up 20 mins of my day, my others are often once a month but rarely more than once a week
and then the rest is resisting your inner demon (inner monologue really, demons aren’t real) telling you to disable your own setup
after I’ve finished all my yt subscription videos and looked at my two reddit multis I have nothing more to doomscroll and so just stop, has worked wonders but nothing is magic, you can lead yourself to water but these tricks won’t do the drinking for you, you have to ignore your inner bad advice fairy
Anyone who posted on this so quickly giving advice about doom scrolling is funny.
Every time a new war or near-war starts, I’m not sleeping for a week. And it seems to be every week :’)
About the only thing that doesnt cost money. Once you step out of your home, your bank account cries.
Luckily, you’ll need to give away your ID or use a VPN to enjoy doomscrolling soon. Might reduce it somewhat?
We have a major issue worldwide with doomscrolling and social media addiction that’s ruining everyone’s lives and psyche, and nobody is addressing this, we’re doomed.
Deactivated my Twitter and Facebook 2 weeks ago. Never felt so free
i am struggling with this more and more. trying to get back to enjoying things. the bigger things i know i can’t do anything. brain feels like i can beyond logic. just odd.
I deleted my Facebook and TikTok, but I’m still doing this shit here and on various news sites. I hate how addicted to it I’m realising I am. Think I might need to just rid of as much internet-enabled tech as I can really to try to eradicate this, but it’s strange, I think if I do that, I will feel extremely disconnected. It’s like I feel this need to know what’s going on in the world at all times. It’s not good for my health at all but feels more addictive than drugs.
Yeah TikTok kept me up until 3:00am one morning… Uninstalled that shit.
Granted, adults should be allowed to consume media how and when they please. However, I think its time we start looking in to laws to prevent the use of predatory engagement algorithims (especially those farming negative emotions like rage bait) to capture and keep attention.
It isn’t good for us.
It’s super addictive and completely valueless, for most of us it would be great to just stop engaging with social media completely.
It’s honestly Reddit, this app I go to without even thinking about it