The great digital fatigue: How digital burnout is changing social media use
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#2Everything happens "quietly" these days...
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#3Social media not adequatly defined in this article. It's hysteria, a buzzword.
The article is just noise without specifying what they're talking about
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#4Social media not adequatly defined in this article. It's hysteria, a buzzword. The article is just noise without specifying what they're talking about
Hysteria is not adequately defined in this comment. It's social media, a buzzword.
This comment is just noise without specifying what they're talking about.
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#5Social media not adequatly defined in this article. It's hysteria, a buzzword. The article is just noise without specifying what they're talking about
> The word hysteria originates from the Greek word for uterus, hystera.
The way you use the term hysteria feels wrong to me.
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#6Social media isn't "social" anymore. It's algorithmically designed to keep you scrolling. Burnout is inevitable.
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#7I hope we can reach a point where there's enough research on the negative effects of social media (or more specifically which features of it e.g. scrolling videos) that we can inform people from a young age.
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#8Social media not adequatly defined in this article. It's hysteria, a buzzword. The article is just noise without specifying what they're talking about
In 2026, expecting articles about social media to contain a definition of the term ‘social media’ is so peculiar as to seem disingenuous. Can you perhaps explain exactly what you think is so ambiguous about how they use the term that we can’t just assume the common meaning?
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#9> "Political content is pushing users toward the exit"
The culture war is exhausting. The idealist dream of some sort of Athenian public deliberation has been overwritten by ragebait. It's both very effective at meeting social media goals (getting people to spend too much time online arguing with strangers), and political goals (Project 2025; the Hungarian/Russian/American conserviative project CPAC; whatever it is that Musk is doing with X; Cambridge Analytica; and so on).
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#10I hope we can reach a point where there's enough research on the negative effects of social media (or more specifically which features of it e.g. scrolling videos) that we can inform people from a young age.
There is more than enough research.
https://thehighwire.com/news/metas-internal-research-proves-...
But nothing's going to change as long as we continue pretending that billionaires hoarding pieces of "special" paper (or numbers in a bank account) are less mentally ill than people hoarding pieces of regular paper (or other things).