Tag: endless feeds
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How Endless Feeds Rewire the Teenage Brain
Endless feeds rewire the teenage brain by continuously activating the reward circuitry, making it harder for teens to disengage from app after app and video after video. Endless feeds — where content refreshes automatically with no stopping point — pull users from one piece of content to the next, especially affecting teenage attention and emotional…
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What Is Doomscrolling and How Does It Affect Kids?
The Cambridge Dictionary defines doomscrolling as “the activity of spending a lot of time looking at your phone or computer and reading bad or negative news stories.” Most of us know the feeling—opening our phones for a quick update and suddenly realizing we’ve spent half an hour stuck in a stream of gloomy headlines. “Doomscrolling…