This situation is called “doomscrolling” in English and “doomscrolling” in Turkish. “disaster scroll” We can translate as

In fact, if we look at the news in general, you can’t say that it requires a special effort anyway. We are in a real “downfall”.

We are experiencing this situation more and more, especially in channels such as Twitter and Ekşi Sözlük.

Even pandemics, wildfires, femicides, injustice, earthquakes. on busy schedules This can even spread to Instagram. Before the age of social media, we only read newspapers in the morning and went about our daily lives. In the evenings we were content to watch a news bulletin. Now everything “last minute” We are inundated with bad news because we want to know.

To change bad things, you don’t have to be exposed to them every minute.

If this is the case, we can eventually become completely desensitized. If you noticed, even a femicide like old times unfortunately not on the agenda. It’s about consuming too much bad news.

We wake up in the morning, when we look at social media, we see another brand new. disaster shift starting. It lasts for hours and this causes insomnia at night.

The important point here is that the agenda itself is not the only culprit in this situation.

Harvard scientist Mesfin Bekalu negative news He says he is more inclined to read. Such situations naturally have beneficial effects, such as mass solidarity, but we should also ask ourselves:

Why do I keep scrolling until my fingers hurt? why so much to make you feel bad Still I keep doing this? If I unfollow some accounts, words or at least when I mute What effect does this have on me? For example, even if they don’t come across as Pat, would I feel better if I went to see what’s going on when I wanted to? How long will this situation continue, years or a lifetime?

The “disaster slide” is known to slowly affect mental health. So what can we do to get out of this situation?

This appoint it can be somewhat effective as we can warn ourselves by saying “I’m scrolling through disasters right now” as it will raise awareness. We can ask ourselves: ‘Is what I am doing really necessary? ice cream, Although we resort to methods such as turning off the Internet connection, we know that they are short-lived.

social media algorithms Because of this, similar messages appear to us all the time and their effects are inevitable. Therefore, social media platforms need to adapt these algorithms. Different in the long run mental health There will be a whole generation that will be badly affected.

• Sources: Wired, Washington Post, The Spark Breaker

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