Doomscrolling
These days we spent so much time on our cell phones that we live eel life than a real life. As a media professional we all know that negativity sells, therefore there are so many negative stories being viral on different platforms. This phenomena is known as doomscrolling.
Doomscrolling or doomsurfing is the act of spending an excessive amount of time reading large quantities of news, particularly negative news, on the web and social media.