I've been doomscrolling a lot on Twitter, Instagram, and Linkedin.
This has affected my mental health a lot perpetuating two key human fears: FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) and FOBO (Fear of Being Ordinary)
2/n The Web 2.0 has been consciously designed this way.
The time has long passed when we used to use the internet to 'search' for something. Now it is all 'social'. The media corp literally comes home and delivers an all-you-can-eat-buffet.
The feed comes to you.
3/n This has led to the reinforcement of destructive behaviour such as doomscrolling.
We keep traversing the vast stretches of this social media land, doomscrolling our way to destruction.
This is not a bug, it's a feature. And we are the lab rats.
I am going to live-tweet the recently released book 'Future of Text' by @liquidizer
// THREAD
'Text is still not so accessible. We write in columns, import illustrations from elsewhere and have severe restrictions in how we connect'.
Linking information from various sources and yet there is little metadata left in the final PDF version which gets exported.
Just like how CPUs offload work to GPU giving the CPU 'more bandwidth', text is a medium through which our occipital lobe (visual processing lobe) offloads work from our prefrontal cortex (higher level thinking)