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Doomscrolling. This is when you endlessly scroll through news or social media, even if the content is negative, alarming, 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 It is also called "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 feature: they form new patterns of online behavior and affect our memory, attention, and level of anxiety.
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