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Social Media & Content Creation vocabulary · Internet Slang

Doomscrolling

Meaning in social media & content creation, with examples

nounCommon term

In social media & content creation, doomscrolling means: Continuing to scroll through distressing online content, often for longer than intended and despite feeling worse.

In Turkish: olumsuz haberlere takılıp kaydırma

How it is used

An informal behavior label used about negative feeds; it is not a diagnosis or merely reading one troubling story.

Example sentences

  1. She noticed that checking the news had turned into doomscrolling.

    A brief check becomes prolonged consumption of distressing material.

  2. The article discusses doomscrolling during periods of intense news coverage.

    The discussion concerns repeated behavior in a negative feed.

Common collocations

  • late-night doomscrolling
  • fall into doomscrolling
  • feedThe main scrolling stream of posts you see when you open a social media app, made up of content from accounts you follow and recommendations.
  • FOMOShort for 'fear of missing out': the worried feeling that other people are having fun or getting something good without you.

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