One of the reasons that scrolling social media can make life feel a little “flat” is that it takes time for your attention to fully cohere, so if you are switching focus too rapidly, you never reach fully integrated attention. Part of your attention is still trying to cohere around the thing you saw a moment ago. And different systems of your body ... See more
Henrik Karlssonsubstack.comHenrik Karlsson (@henrikkarlsson)
How Social Media Shortens Your Life
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What risk are we radically underestimating as a species? What are we overestimating?
I think we’ve still underestimated the harms of scrolling. I am careful to say “scrolling” because I don’t think social media is itself a bad thing, nor do I think screens are uniformly bad. I think it’s specifically the act of scrolling, which forces us to ingest,... See more
I think we’ve still underestimated the harms of scrolling. I am careful to say “scrolling” because I don’t think social media is itself a bad thing, nor do I think screens are uniformly bad. I think it’s specifically the act of scrolling, which forces us to ingest,... See more
Nadia Asparouhova • Nadia Asparouhova on antimemetics, nuclear mysticism, and scrolling
What’s amazing is how chronological feeds — essentially accidental experiments of digital architecture — have rewired our brains. In the feed, everything is fleeting. This design property means you’re either always on and connected, or you’re off and wondering if you’re missing something important.