Why You Can't Stop Doom Scrolling

there's a really interesting set of research on something called online drift which is that anytime you click on something on a platform you get engaged with an algorithm and what happens with these algorithms is that over time the emotional engagement the dopam energic engagement will build up a tolerance so I'll give you all just a simple example when you watch a video on the internet how many times in a row do you watch it if you want to spend an hour scrolling on the internet do you watch the same video over and over and over again for an hour of course not that is crazy Dr k what the hell are you talking about I never watch something more than once why because there is a tolerance to a signal that develops so in order to avoid that tolerance you need a stronger signal and this is what the internet has discovered they're not trying to be nefarious what they realize is if you're a liberal you'll get some crazy conservative Echo chamber content every now and then or even a lot because the platforms have learned if we can piss you off you're not going to move to a different platform this is online drift

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Published: Mon Apr 22 2024