How I Fight the Doomscroll and Get Out of the Social Media Refresh Loop

A talk from EMF 2022 by Matt Gray

On Friday June 3, 2022 at in Stage A

We've all found ourself doomscrolling, and fighting against social network's barrage of extra things in our newsfeed and notifications to keep us there for longer. It's not good use of time, energy and mental bandwith, and hell in my case the habitual refreshing has started giving me RSI.

I'll go through my three steps to stop Doomscrolling and get out of the social media refresh loop (or at least try to).

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