Verb
To continually read Internet presentations of people’s accomplishment and thereby gain the impression of being inadequate.
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Getting in touch with the thoughts and feelings driving compulsions toward hate-scrolling, doomscrolling, or what I’ll call “envy-scrolling” across social media and news platforms is the first step.
Q: “[…] Everything seems to be going well in my friends’ lives – interesting jobs, great partners, endless weekends away in cool places… I feel so envious of what they have and find myself envy-scrolling their feeds most nights. […]”
But while my irritation with them faded, my sense that our public spaces are being degraded by a hyper-individualistic culture that has lost its sense of community did not. We all go around in our own little technology bubbles, doomscrolling through X, envyscrolling through Instagram, and keeping ourselves away from the uncomfortable possibilities of boredom, deep reflection, or — God forbid — a conversation with a stranger.