Constantly find yourself doomscrolling on social media? You may just be doing so out of habit, not addiction. That’s according to research conducted on 1,204 US adults, which found excessive social ...

Last year, ‘brain rot’ was crowned Oxford Dictionary’s Word of the Year, a term which captured concerns about the impact of consuming “excessive amounts of low-quality online content, especially on ...

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We live in a digital era. There's simply no way of ignoring it. Many of us sit on our phones for hours, scrolling through different social media apps. Whether we're watching our friends' stories on ...

More than 800 U.S. TikTok users shared their data with The Washington Post. We used it to find out why some people become power users, spending hours per day scrolling. Each circle in the chart ...

While that message has been spread on social media, researchers are just beginning to understand how the devices affect the mind Amber X. Chen - AAAS Mass Media Fellow Research on how smartphone use ...

Of all the crappy ways smartphones have affected our health, this one is a real kick in the pants. A first-of-its-kind study links excessive scrolling on the phone while sitting on the toilet with ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Famed developer Ron Gilbert's new game, Death by Scrolling, was showcased in video form at the Gamescom 2025 Opening Night. It is a pixel-art, ...

Gothamites go the distance — especially on their devices, per new data on the US hot spots that rack up the most scrolling mileage every 365 days. “New York [has] an average daily screen time of 6 ...

Every time you look up a way to get better sleep, it seems like all the hacks have one thing in common: the very annoying “no phone before bed” rule. The advice makes sense — maybe it really is that ...

You just set up your brand new Mac and are about to scroll through a long document. You press the middle button on your mouse, expecting to be able to scroll by moving your cursor the way you can on ...