Observation: I was looking around here at CS for about 45mins. Completely pleasant experience. Then, I went back over to twitter to scroll a bit for news and within 5mins I felt my pulse increase, my chest tighten, knot in my stomach, and a growing sense of both sadness and rage. No joke. It couldn't have been more than 5mins of twitter doom scrolling. Popped right back over here! :)
@skiphunt
When I first joined, a naut sent me an article about dopamine. I'm not sure if this is the one, but it describes what happens to us doom scrolling on the bird app. Once we join coso our levels drop off and we calm down and no longer feel the need for the anticipation of the thrill of getting likes or retweets. We come to crave anticipating the reward of higher follower #s etc.
#s don't matter here. We interact with each other and calm down. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/dopamine
@Krysdammit thanks! So far I’m kinda here strictly for being “social”
@skiphunt
Me as well. When I joined quite a few newbies were posting a lot of political posts in the same way they would have on twitter. Someone posted an article about anticipating rewards from reactions due to dopamine.
Sorry if I offended you in any way. Just thought I'd make ppl aware of it's effect on us. I really like the vibe here and just how social a place it is. 🤗