I wonder how much this is a factor of the widespread mental health malaise that is often attributed to tech these days? Certainly plenty of factors to go around, but consider the connotation of "scrolling" and how common it is a default replacement to boredom in modern life and suddenly it seems quite insidious.
Super insightful. I feel the same way. I can't mentally "conclude" my read for the day, because there is always just One More Article that is just under the threshold.
An extension of Fear of Missing Out, basically. And yes, I think it causes mental exhaustion and might be directly related to some mental disorders that we have really yet to understand.
Yes - I was actually deliberate about leaving infinite scroll out; I started w/ scrolling on tag pages, for example, but switched them to paginated - largely for the feeling you described.
I wonder how much this is a factor of the widespread mental health malaise that is often attributed to tech these days? Certainly plenty of factors to go around, but consider the connotation of "scrolling" and how common it is a default replacement to boredom in modern life and suddenly it seems quite insidious.
Super insightful. I feel the same way. I can't mentally "conclude" my read for the day, because there is always just One More Article that is just under the threshold.
An extension of Fear of Missing Out, basically. And yes, I think it causes mental exhaustion and might be directly related to some mental disorders that we have really yet to understand.
Yes - I was actually deliberate about leaving infinite scroll out; I started w/ scrolling on tag pages, for example, but switched them to paginated - largely for the feeling you described.