Doom scrolling is not even subject to younger audiences, I see my grandma without data, scrolling 100 Facebook reels before she goes out, and goes back to the top so she can watch them later without needing wifi.
buggaby on
Thanks for the off ramp
Primary_Remove9217 on
Spent hours doomscrolling just today it’s insane
GeniusOfLove74 on
He may have a point. Meta and YouTube just lost a major lawsuit related to their practices.
>A California jury on Wednesday found that Meta and Google were to blame for the depression and anxiety of a woman who compulsively used social media as a small child, awarding her $6 million in a rare verdict holding Silicon Valley accountable for its role in fueling a youth mental health crisis.
>The jurors concluded that Meta and Google should pay the woman $3 million in compensatory damages and an additional $3 million in punitive damages, with Meta on the hook for 70% of that amount.
>While the financial punishment is miniscule for companies each worth trillions of dollars, the decision is still consequential. It represents the first time a jury has found that social media apps should be treated as defective products for being engineered to exploit the developing brains of kids and teenagers.
My takeaway is this may open up the possibility of class action lawsuits, for others who may have similar problems. The right law firm could probably make millions off this sort of thing.
Posts like this remind me of Reddit apps like Apollo. You could set it to have pages and keep better track of your scrolling.
herewearefornow on
Two guys who worked at Facebook in the late 00s did that. The called it Infinity Scroll.
Itsprobablysarcasm on
*Days?!* I wish. Covid was three+ years and I doomscrolled a lot of it.
How many 25 year olds today have been doomscrolling since they were 15 in 2016? That’s a whole decade of doomscroll.
TieConnect3072 on
Months. Not days.
Andyatlast on
I think Thomas Midgley Jr. has the guy who invented the endless scroll beat… for now.
mrbuh on
I work in software. In 2012 I was working at a place that did business to business software and there was a big initiative to replace all page separation and implement infinite scroll.
I argued against it until it was clear that not only had I lost the argument, but I was annoying the shit out of everyone in the room.
I tried to do my part. I was defeated.
TwilightOuterZone on
CIA in the 60s thru 80s: why didn’t we think of that
tiredofeveryonesmess on
Nah, it’s still capitalism. Literally Pandora’s Box.
chief_yETI on
see I dont understand this
if it never ends, that means you can stop anytime because its not like you’re close to the end, and it sidesteps that whole “well let me just finish scrolling through the rest of this page since Im already close” justification that people like to use
also, the content literally **never** gets better the more you scroll. If anything it gets worse because they put all the good stuff at the top.
Guess I just know how to internet better than you people do 😏
If anything, the infinite scroll is just natural selection.
lovbelow on
This is why people need to read more. Reading books forces you to slow down and process info before moving on to the next section. Doomscrolling involves negative info being fed to a person in rapid succession (especially on TT).
Picking up a book every once in a while gives the brain a much needed workout. Social media is trying to lull us into the prequel to Idiocracy.
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Doom scrolling is not even subject to younger audiences, I see my grandma without data, scrolling 100 Facebook reels before she goes out, and goes back to the top so she can watch them later without needing wifi.
Thanks for the off ramp
Spent hours doomscrolling just today it’s insane
He may have a point. Meta and YouTube just lost a major lawsuit related to their practices.
[https://www.npr.org/2026/03/25/nx-s1-5746125/meta-youtube-social-media-trial-verdict](https://www.npr.org/2026/03/25/nx-s1-5746125/meta-youtube-social-media-trial-verdict)
From NPR:
>A California jury on Wednesday found that Meta and Google were to blame for the depression and anxiety of a woman who compulsively used social media as a small child, awarding her $6 million in a rare verdict holding Silicon Valley accountable for its role in fueling a youth mental health crisis.
>The jurors concluded that Meta and Google should pay the woman $3 million in compensatory damages and an additional $3 million in punitive damages, with Meta on the hook for 70% of that amount.
>While the financial punishment is miniscule for companies each worth trillions of dollars, the decision is still consequential. It represents the first time a jury has found that social media apps should be treated as defective products for being engineered to exploit the developing brains of kids and teenagers.
My takeaway is this may open up the possibility of class action lawsuits, for others who may have similar problems. The right law firm could probably make millions off this sort of thing.
Other links:
[https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/technology/social-media-trial-verdict.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/technology/social-media-trial-verdict.html)
[https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/verdict-reached-landmark-social-media-addiction-trial-rcna263421](https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/verdict-reached-landmark-social-media-addiction-trial-rcna263421)
[https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/25/tech/social-media-addiction-trial-jury-decision](https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/25/tech/social-media-addiction-trial-jury-decision)
Posts like this remind me of Reddit apps like Apollo. You could set it to have pages and keep better track of your scrolling.
Two guys who worked at Facebook in the late 00s did that. The called it Infinity Scroll.
*Days?!* I wish. Covid was three+ years and I doomscrolled a lot of it.
How many 25 year olds today have been doomscrolling since they were 15 in 2016? That’s a whole decade of doomscroll.
Months. Not days.
I think Thomas Midgley Jr. has the guy who invented the endless scroll beat… for now.
I work in software. In 2012 I was working at a place that did business to business software and there was a big initiative to replace all page separation and implement infinite scroll.
I argued against it until it was clear that not only had I lost the argument, but I was annoying the shit out of everyone in the room.
I tried to do my part. I was defeated.
CIA in the 60s thru 80s: why didn’t we think of that
Nah, it’s still capitalism. Literally Pandora’s Box.
see I dont understand this
if it never ends, that means you can stop anytime because its not like you’re close to the end, and it sidesteps that whole “well let me just finish scrolling through the rest of this page since Im already close” justification that people like to use
also, the content literally **never** gets better the more you scroll. If anything it gets worse because they put all the good stuff at the top.
Guess I just know how to internet better than you people do 😏
If anything, the infinite scroll is just natural selection.
This is why people need to read more. Reading books forces you to slow down and process info before moving on to the next section. Doomscrolling involves negative info being fed to a person in rapid succession (especially on TT).
Picking up a book every once in a while gives the brain a much needed workout. Social media is trying to lull us into the prequel to Idiocracy.