Dear MEL Topic Readers,
The boredom scroll on socials may be making your problem worse, study
says
Boredom is certainly an unpleasant emotion. When you’re bored, you tend
to change what you’re doing and try to find something more interesting. For example,
if the video you’re watching on your smartphone doesn’t interest you so much,
you tend to fast-forward it or switch to another video. This seems to make you
even more bored because you’re missing the chance to be engaged in the video. A
study found that people who completed watching a 10-minute video experienced
more engaging, satisfying, and meaningful experiences than when they switched
or fast-forwarded it for something else. Think of watching a mediocre movie in
a theater and on your smartphone. In a movie theater, you’ll enjoy an immersive
and uninterrupted experience for about two hours without having an option to fast-forward
it. But when you watch the same movie on your phone or tablet, you tend to skip
the parts that aren’t so interesting or exciting to you. The same thing is true
when you read a magazine or book. Keep scrolling seems to make you bored even
more.
Read the article and learn what makes you bored.
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