November 21, 2024 --- Category: Digital Well-being --- Tags: Content Consumption, Social Media, RSS
The way we interact with content on the internet today is unsustainable. Before smart phones and always on devices you needed to:
The pre-smartphone era of the internet gave us access to the “fountain of knowledge” and our physical environment provided the “tap” for how much we could consume at once.
Today, consumption of content online has moved from that slow flow to standing in front of a firehose. Smartphones and always on devices mean unlimited content is only seconds away.
Many of us don’t realise our mindless scrolling is a firehose that batters our minds, inducing stress and anxiety. If the quality of this content was good then maybe there could be an argument for it being a positive but it is increasingly poor quality.