You’ve Heard About Doomscrolling, What about Dumbscrolling?

I made it up to explain how Facebook wastes my time and energy

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Okay. So dumbscroll isn’t actually a word. Or at least it wasn’t until I made it up. It’s kind of the opposite to doomscrolling — the act of conscientiously scrolling through social media in search of grim news about the world. Dumbscrolling is mindless…