ej sais pas si vous connaissez Flock, mais y vont en mettre au NB. Jvous conseille d'aller voir koske c, et chu pas surpris que la première es a elsipogtog, et c'est itou proche d'une ecole.
https://nbtechnews.ca/articles/elsipogtog-flock-camera-map-entry
hello everyone!
im a student in psychology, and i love going down rabbit holes and researching random stuff. i do however believe i have found something that i would have rather ignored, but it is so serious and has to be shared.
It has dawned upon us as a society that scrolling, social media and etc are probably bad for us. But do we really know how bad it really is? Sometimes, its hard to face or admit to ourselves just how bad it is and how it might affect us.
The term digital dementia was first coined by Dr. Manfred Spritzer is his book "digital dementia" around the 2012s, and it is a sort of prediction that generations that have grown up with phones and social media, particularly short form content will face a growing epidemic of dementia cases in the future. (according to newer research, the current older generations won't be as affected, it seems to be the younger ones who had access to scrolling and etc during their formative years and who will have scrolled most of their lives). Scholars and scientists who agree with this theory predict a 4 to 6 fold increase in dementia cases post 2060 according to the following trends which could overload the medical system and mental health system worldwide. Dementia has always been something that scared me, and i dont want to see my friends or other people in my age group suffer from it early just because they were scrolling and didnt know. In this post, i will provide a brief explanation about my own progress and experiences with quitting scrolling, my tips and links to the sources from which ive based my research. i hope it helps motivate atleast one person to quit and realize how beautiful our lives are. Also, i have not used ai for any of this text, and english is not my first language, so sorry if there are typos.
I, like many others, happen to believe in this theory. Feel free to check my sources and make your own mind up about the digital dementia epidemic theory, but i myself will be quitting. I urge everyone that we stop scrolling and start healing our brains while we still can. I could write a whole post about the effects that scrolling has on a person (loss of interest in life, loss of attention, lack of dopamine, atrophy of certain parts of the brain, higher rates of depression, anxiety, isolation, online radicalization, desensitization...), but this post is not about that. This post is simply me trying to warn people who may not have heard about it to quit scrolling and preserve their memory while they still can.
Ive been trying to quit doomscrolling for almost seven months now. I had been scrolling since i was about 12-13 and kept scrolling for over an hour a day for over four years. It's hard to face and admit, but when i add these hours together, i have probably wasted months and months of my life. I decided i had to quit. It has not been easy. I would delete the apps (tiktok, instagram, shorts) and end up downloading them again out of stress or boredom. I can proudly say that after seven months of continuous efforts, i have been able to not scroll in a month, and i dont think im ever going to scroll again. The process after quitting wasnt easy, but i want to break the timeline down as to make it seem more attainable.
week 1: restlessness, boredom, irritability, compulsive urge to check phone (id find myself trying to scroll even when i had deleted the apps!), inability to focus, curiosity and fear of missing out. For me, this week has always been the hardest and easiest to give in and start scrolling again. It's important to understand what makes you scroll and remedy to that problem to make it less likely to relapse. for me, i started painting and drawing again whenever i felt the urge to scroll. Physical movement is good as well. At this point, your brain is expecting dopamine hits every few seconds, and no activity feels as rewarding as scrolling. In my opinion, day 3-5 are the worst. But even just three days can have measurable positive impacts on ur brain.
week 2: Boredom is less intense but persistent, still noticing im reaching for my phone when i sit down or have nothing to do, start gaining focus again and things seem a bit more interesting. In the brain, dopamine sensitivity begins to recover and memories begin to form . The improvement felt slow for me here and i was almost tempted to relapse, but by focusing and noticing small wins such as more free time, improved sleep and more i kept going.
week 3: New routines begin to feel natural. You find hobbies, activities to do instesd of scrolling. Personally, i felt "more like the main character of my life again". Your life starts feeling more special and exciting. I began to implement time outside, more time with my friends, more time to read and draw. In your brain, at this point new pathways are forming and strengthening.
week 4: I dont reach for my phone automatically, and sometimes even forget i have it. If not to scroll or go on social media, i dont use my phone as much. Everyday activities that i once would have found boring feels more exciting. I sometimes feel like i am rediscovering life.
2 months: I havent gotten to this point yet, but i imagine life will feel more like when i was a kid, intentional, slower, exciting, every minute well spent and remembered.
Something important for me is that living scroll-free has allowed me to enjoy life more than ever before because i have now consciously chosen to prioritize it.
My best tips to quit:
-Dont just go cold turkey, replace it with something else that makes you excited (creativity, socializing, sports...)
-delete the apps (if ur tempted to scroll, itll make u have to wait while it downloads, and you might be able to catch yourself before you scroll)
-find purpose, reasons to quit. ( for me, it was wanting to preserve my brain and desiring to enjoy my one life on this earth fully instead of vicariously living through short videos on my phone)
-be proud of little wins. These apps have been designed to hack our brains, and quitting is something we should all be proud of.
-try mindfulness, meditation (especially meditation where you focus on one thing for example Samatha meditation or metta meditation) reading and better sleep to help with the recovery process.
i hope this has helped someone understand the important of prioritizing brain health and to realize that if we keep scrolling, this will happen, to all of us. And i already see it, i couldnt read as well, i couldnt write anymore, i was not creative, i was less patient... and im still recovering these things. But thank god i am, my life has been so much better.
Let me know in the comments if anyone has any tips for me or advice, or want to share their own opinion and experience.
wishing you all the best!
links i used as sources for my research:
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/suppl/10.1086/691462#
https://www.healthline.com/health/parenting/digital-dementia#symptoms
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11871965/
https://www.imrpress.com/journal/JIN/21/1/10.31083/j.jin2101028
https://beingpatient.com/screen-time-john-hutton/
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/molecular-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnmol.2026.1760387/full
https://www.scientificarchives.com/article/the-screen-paradox-cognitive-costs-in-the-digital-age
https://www.neurocenternj.com/blog/digital-dementia-how-screens-and-digital-devices-impact-memory/
hello everyone!
im a student in psychology, and i love going down rabbit holes and researching random stuff. i do however believe i have found something that i would have rather ignored, but it is so serious and has to be shared.
It has dawned upon us as a society that scrolling, social media and etc are probably bad for us. But do we really know how bad it really is? Sometimes, its hard to face or admit to ourselves just how bad it is and how it might affect us.
The term digital dementia was first coined by Dr. Manfred Spritzer is his book "digital dementia" around the 2012s, and it is a sort of prediction that generations that have grown up with phones and social media, particularly short form content will face a growing epidemic of dementia cases in the future. (according to newer research, the current older generations won't be as affected, it seems to be the younger ones who had access to scrolling and etc during their formative years and who will have scrolled most of their lives). Scholars and scientists who agree with this theory predict a 4 to 6 fold increase in dementia cases post 2060 according to the following trends which could overload the medical system and mental health system worldwide. Dementia has always been something that scared me, and i dont want to see my friends or other people in my age group suffer from it early just because they were scrolling and didnt know. In this post, i will provide a brief explanation about my own progress and experiences with quitting scrolling, my tips and links to the sources from which ive based my research. i hope it helps motivate atleast one person to quit and realize how beautiful our lives are. Also, i have not used ai for any of this text, and english is not my first language, so sorry if there are typos.
I, like many others, happen to believe in this theory. Feel free to check my sources and make your own mind up about the digital dementia epidemic theory, but i myself will be quitting. I urge everyone that we stop scrolling and start healing our brains while we still can. I could write a whole post about the effects that scrolling has on a person (loss of interest in life, loss of attention, lack of dopamine, atrophy of certain parts of the brain, higher rates of depression, anxiety, isolation, online radicalization, desensitization...), but this post is not about that. This post is simply me trying to warn people who may not have heard about it to quit scrolling and preserve their memory while they still can.
Ive been trying to quit doomscrolling for almost seven months now. I had been scrolling since i was about 12-13 and kept scrolling for over an hour a day for over four years. It's hard to face and admit, but when i add these hours together, i have probably wasted months and months of my life. I decided i had to quit. It has not been easy. I would delete the apps (tiktok, instagram, shorts) and end up downloading them again out of stress or boredom. I can proudly say that after seven months of continuous efforts, i have been able to not scroll in a month, and i dont think im ever going to scroll again. The process after quitting wasnt easy, but i want to break the timeline down as to make it seem more attainable.
week 1: restlessness, boredom, irritability, compulsive urge to check phone (id find myself trying to scroll even when i had deleted the apps!), inability to focus, curiosity and fear of missing out. For me, this week has always been the hardest and easiest to give in and start scrolling again. It's important to understand what makes you scroll and remedy to that problem to make it less likely to relapse. for me, i started painting and drawing again whenever i felt the urge to scroll. Physical movement is good as well. At this point, your brain is expecting dopamine hits every few seconds, and no activity feels as rewarding as scrolling. In my opinion, day 3-5 are the worst. But even just three days can have measurable positive impacts on ur brain.
week 2: Boredom is less intense but persistent, still noticing im reaching for my phone when i sit down or have nothing to do, start gaining focus again and things seem a bit more interesting. In the brain, dopamine sensitivity begins to recover and memories begin to form . The improvement felt slow for me here and i was almost tempted to relapse, but by focusing and noticing small wins such as more free time, improved sleep and more i kept going.
week 3: New routines begin to feel natural. You find hobbies, activities to do instesd of scrolling. Personally, i felt "more like the main character of my life again". Your life starts feeling more special and exciting. I began to implement time outside, more time with my friends, more time to read and draw. In your brain, at this point new pathways are forming and strengthening.
week 4: I dont reach for my phone automatically, and sometimes even forget i have it. If not to scroll or go on social media, i dont use my phone as much. Everyday activities that i once would have found boring feels more exciting. I sometimes feel like i am rediscovering life.
2 months: I havent gotten to this point yet, but i imagine life will feel more like when i was a kid, intentional, slower, exciting, every minute well spent and remembered.
Something important for me is that living scroll-free has allowed me to enjoy life more than ever before because i have now consciously chosen to prioritize it.
My best tips to quit:
-Dont just go cold turkey, replace it with something else that makes you excited (creativity, socializing, sports...)
-delete the apps (if ur tempted to scroll, itll make u have to wait while it downloads, and you might be able to catch yourself before you scroll)
-find purpose, reasons to quit. ( for me, it was wanting to preserve my brain and desiring to enjoy my one life on this earth fully instead of vicariously living through short videos on my phone)
-be proud of little wins. These apps have been designed to hack our brains, and quitting is something we should all be proud of.
-try mindfulness, meditation (especially meditation where you focus on one thing for example Samatha meditation or metta meditation) reading and better sleep to help with the recovery process.
i hope this has helped someone understand the important of prioritizing brain health and to realize that if we keep scrolling, this will happen, to all of us. And i already see it, i couldnt read as well, i couldnt write anymore, i was not creative, i was less patient... and im still recovering these things. But thank god i am, my life has been so much better.
Let me know in the comments if anyone has any tips for me or advice, or want to share their own opinion and experience.
wishing you all the best!
links i used as sources for my research:
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/suppl/10.1086/691462#
https://www.healthline.com/health/parenting/digital-dementia#symptoms
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11871965/
https://www.imrpress.com/journal/JIN/21/1/10.31083/j.jin2101028
https://beingpatient.com/screen-time-john-hutton/
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/molecular-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnmol.2026.1760387/full
https://www.scientificarchives.com/article/the-screen-paradox-cognitive-costs-in-the-digital-age
https://www.neurocenternj.com/blog/digital-dementia-how-screens-and-digital-devices-impact-memory/
hello everyone!
im a student in psychology, and i love going down rabbit holes and researching random stuff. i do however believe i have found something that i would have rather ignored, but it is so serious and has to be shared.
It has dawned upon us as a society that scrolling, social media and etc are probably bad for us. But do we really know how bad it really is? Sometimes, its hard to face or admit to ourselves just how bad it is and how it might affect us.
The term digital dementia was first coined by Dr. Manfred Spritzer is his book "digital dementia" around the 2012s, and it is a sort of prediction that generations that have grown up with phones and social media, particularly short form content will face a growing epidemic of dementia cases in the future. (according to newer research, the current older generations won't be as affected, it seems to be the younger ones who had access to scrolling and etc during their formative years and who will have scrolled most of their lives). Scholars and scientists who agree with this theory predict a 4 to 6 fold increase in dementia cases post 2060 according to the following trends which could overload the medical system and mental health system worldwide. Dementia has always been something that scared me, and i dont want to see my friends or other people in my age group suffer from it early just because they were scrolling and didnt know. In this post, i will provide a brief explanation about my own progress and experiences with quitting scrolling, my tips and links to the sources from which ive based my research. i hope it helps motivate atleast one person to quit and realize how beautiful our lives are. Also, i have not used ai for any of this text, and english is not my first language, so sorry if there are typos.
I, like many others, happen to believe in this theory. Feel free to check my sources and make your own mind up about the digital dementia epidemic theory, but i myself will be quitting. I urge everyone that we stop scrolling and start healing our brains while we still can. I could write a whole post about the effects that scrolling has on a person (loss of interest in life, loss of attention, lack of dopamine, atrophy of certain parts of the brain, higher rates of depression, anxiety, isolation, online radicalization, desensitization...), but this post is not about that. This post is simply me trying to warn people who may not have heard about it to quit scrolling and preserve their memory while they still can.
Ive been trying to quit doomscrolling for almost seven months now. I had been scrolling since i was about 12-13 and kept scrolling for over an hour a day for over four years. It's hard to face and admit, but when i add these hours together, i have probably wasted months and months of my life. I decided i had to quit. It has not been easy. I would delete the apps (tiktok, instagram, shorts) and end up downloading them again out of stress or boredom. I can proudly say that after seven months of continuous efforts, i have been able to not scroll in a month, and i dont think im ever going to scroll again. The process after quitting wasnt easy, but i want to break the timeline down as to make it seem more attainable.
week 1: restlessness, boredom, irritability, compulsive urge to check phone (id find myself trying to scroll even when i had deleted the apps!), inability to focus, curiosity and fear of missing out. For me, this week has always been the hardest and easiest to give in and start scrolling again. It's important to understand what makes you scroll and remedy to that problem to make it less likely to relapse. for me, i started painting and drawing again whenever i felt the urge to scroll. Physical movement is good as well. At this point, your brain is expecting dopamine hits every few seconds, and no activity feels as rewarding as scrolling. In my opinion, day 3-5 are the worst. But even just three days can have measurable positive impacts on ur brain.
week 2: Boredom is less intense but persistent, still noticing im reaching for my phone when i sit down or have nothing to do, start gaining focus again and things seem a bit more interesting. In the brain, dopamine sensitivity begins to recover and memories begin to form . The improvement felt slow for me here and i was almost tempted to relapse, but by focusing and noticing small wins such as more free time, improved sleep and more i kept going.
week 3: New routines begin to feel natural. You find hobbies, activities to do instesd of scrolling. Personally, i felt "more like the main character of my life again". Your life starts feeling more special and exciting. I began to implement time outside, more time with my friends, more time to read and draw. In your brain, at this point new pathways are forming and strengthening.
week 4: I dont reach for my phone automatically, and sometimes even forget i have it. If not to scroll or go on social media, i dont use my phone as much. Everyday activities that i once would have found boring feels more exciting. I sometimes feel like i am rediscovering life.
2 months: I havent gotten to this point yet, but i imagine life will feel more like when i was a kid, intentional, slower, exciting, every minute well spent and remembered.
Something important for me is that living scroll-free has allowed me to enjoy life more than ever before because i have now consciously chosen to prioritize it.
My best tips to quit:
-Dont just go cold turkey, replace it with something else that makes you excited (creativity, socializing, sports...)
-delete the apps (if ur tempted to scroll, itll make u have to wait while it downloads, and you might be able to catch yourself before you scroll)
-find purpose, reasons to quit. ( for me, it was wanting to preserve my brain and desiring to enjoy my one life on this earth fully instead of vicariously living through short videos on my phone)
-be proud of little wins. These apps have been designed to hack our brains, and quitting is something we should all be proud of.
-try mindfulness, meditation (especially meditation where you focus on one thing for example Samatha meditation or metta meditation) reading and better sleep to help with the recovery process.
i hope this has helped someone understand the important of prioritizing brain health and to realize that if we keep scrolling, this will happen, to all of us. And i already see it, i couldnt read as well, i couldnt write anymore, i was not creative, i was less patient... and im still recovering these things. But thank god i am, my life has been so much better.
Let me know in the comments if anyone has any tips for me or advice, or want to share their own opinion and experience.
wishing you all the best!
links i used as sources for my research:
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/suppl/10.1086/691462#
https://www.healthline.com/health/parenting/digital-dementia#symptoms
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11871965/
https://www.imrpress.com/journal/JIN/21/1/10.31083/j.jin2101028
https://beingpatient.com/screen-time-john-hutton/
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/molecular-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnmol.2026.1760387/full
https://www.scientificarchives.com/article/the-screen-paradox-cognitive-costs-in-the-digital-age
https://www.neurocenternj.com/blog/digital-dementia-how-screens-and-digital-devices-impact-memory/
i dont know if many of you have heard about the new world order theory. but here are some epstein files that have left me rather concerned... i dont know what to make of this. (got deleted so im reposting it)