doomscrolling

It’s only recently that Berna and I came across the word “doomscrolling.” We hadn’t heard it before, and had to look it up to see what it meant.

The Mayo Clinic defines doomscrolling as “The obsessive and unproductive consumption of negative information on social media.”

I guess I’m a bit out of touch with today’s world, or at least with social media.

Actually, though, “doomscrolling” is just a new word for what, in our opinion, is one of humanity’s worst habits–always expecting the worst.… Read more