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Doomscrolling. This is when you endlessly scroll through news or social media, even if the content is negative, anxiety-inducing, or exhausting. Your brain seems to "get stuck" in the feed, and you keep reading more and more bad news.
Doomprompting A new term that describes the habit of asking artificial intelligence or search increasingly grim questions. A person seems to "dig" deeper into anxious topics - diseases, disasters, apocalyptic scenarios, etc.
Google effect Also known as "digital amnesia." This is when you find an answer in a search, but almost immediately forget it because you subconsciously know: you can Google it again.
All these phenomena share a common trait: they create new patterns of online behavior and affect our memory, attention, and level of anxiety.
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