Today I would like to talk about a new type of non-chemical addiction. This is an addiction to news feeds. The irony of fate is that people once invented the Internet in order to reduce the time spent searching for the necessary information, so as not to stand in line at the library and not sift through dozens of books and encyclopedias. With good intentions, as they say...However, in recent years, hundreds of thousands of people have appeared, “hanging out” in news feeds. They scroll their feed minute after minute, spending hours of their lives on it! Reading absolutely unnecessary information! It's been a great time reduction, hasn't it? It's not just a bad habit, it's an addiction. A person cannot tear himself away from the smartphone display, scrolling and scrolling through the news. At the same time, he receives such a huge amount of information that his memory is not able to retain even a tenth of this information. Moreover, as foreign studies show, daily scrolling of news feeds leads to serious disruption of mental processes. And first of all, memory, attention, thinking suffer, the emotional sphere of the personality is disrupted, volitional processes are disrupted. How does it happen that people get stuck scrolling? After all, just a couple of decades ago we weren’t so hung up on new information. And they lived peacefully, and the number of neuroses, phobias and personality disorders was an order of magnitude less! The children grew up healthier, did more sports and played outdoor games! It’s very simple. First, a person reads information that interests him, then he comes across other random news that is absolutely not included in his area of ​​interest. The eye catches on the next news, then another, then a whole chain of news of a certain nature appears (for example, about scandals with stars or news about politics or sports) and the person himself forgets not only what he wanted to remember after reading the necessary information, but sometimes even forgets why he went online in the first place. Attention will become unfocused. In order to force a person to read what they want to sell to him and hook him, there is an entire media system based on knowledge of the human psyche, the properties of attention, the principles of how thinking works, the ability to turn off critical thinking, the ability to interpret and distort real facts, etc. Media psychology is not only about beautiful advertising and constantly popping up banners, no! This is a complex technology, the purpose of which is to influence in a certain way emotions, the cognitive sphere, and, ultimately, human behavior. In any case, a person becomes a thoughtless consumer of various, and almost any information. Most often, negative information is leaked: murders, disasters, conflicts, incidents, scandals with stars, etc. And the consumer is most quickly hooked on negative information. There is even such a term: doomscrolling - addiction to negative news. A logical question arises: why do people read and watch negative news? It turns out that scrolling through negative information helps a person feel more secure. Do you get the idea? The more negative information there is, I can protect myself by looking at it every day. Because I will no longer miss the negative information that in any way could affect me! I will track this information in time and take appropriate action! The illusion of control over the surrounding reality is created. Especially if a person initially has increased anxiety. By the way, it is these same negative news that pour on us from every iron that create a permanent anxious background. It seems that the world around is extremely dangerous and aggressive, and the person is in a state of constant stress. Now he has to scroll through hundreds of pages every day to make him feel calmer, to feel safe. In this way he calms himself down. Some people read books at night, some play games.. 8-915-658-78-90