A young person, covering their face while scrolling on their phone. Photo: By Adrian Swancar on Unsplash.
Voice of doom: Tony D’Souza on an era-defining term
‘None of this is new.’
by Tony D’Souza
13th December 2024
Doomscrolling is ‘the activity of spending a lot of time looking at your phone or computer and reading bad or negative news stories’. I do it more often than I should. The minutes turn to hours and time slips by imperceptibly as if in a dream. That’s the worst thing about it. Doomscrolling robs me of time I could have spent doing something meaningful. It is time wasted in a fear-filled reverie.
