Doomscrolling, and social media addiction as a whole, is a relatively new field of behavioral science that personally, still is lacking in appropriate studies. There's certainly a lot to be learned from the World Wide Web; I mean, you're most likely listening to this thanks to an Internet connection. Though, if you're finding this via a CD in the bargain bin of a Walmart - let me know because that's pretty cool. Shady podcast listening practices aside, today's podcast deals a lot with improper scrolling - how the attempt to find that one juicy bit of information and our willingness to put up with poor quality posts to find it may actually be attributing to our bad habits and what we can do to start changing that around.

We'll talk about taking note of how much time we spend on social media, then how to make an actionable goal to limit that time to something we can be more proud of. Then, we'll talk about how to curate your feed for the better, the importance of fact-checking before reposting, and the most important piece of all: how to take a proper break. We'll then circle around and talk about how to use that newly limited time to drive engagement and make your social media efforts more worth the limited time you provide them.

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