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Vikas Acharya
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Medial • 2m

The Dark Side of Scrolling: How It Affects Your Brain and Leads to 'Brain Rot'. 1. **Dopamine Overload**: Scrolling activates the brain’s reward system, releasing dopamine, the feel-good chemical. Each new post gives a small hit, making it hard to stop. Over time, this can lead to addictive behavior, where your brain craves constant stimulation. 2. **Decreased Attention Span**: The rapid consumption of short, bite-sized content fragments your attention span. Your brain gets used to shifting focus quickly, making it harder to concentrate on deeper tasks like reading or problem-solving. 3. **Mental Fatigue**: The overload of information leaves your brain exhausted, leading to decision fatigue, anxiety, and difficulty processing information. 4. **Reduced Memory Retention**: Constantly bombarding your brain with new, often irrelevant content prevents it from properly encoding memories, making it hard to retain important information.

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Anonymous 3

Stealth • 2m

You only cry about it become you have a consumer mentality, creators leveraged this shit and made a whole ass career out of it.

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Anonymous 2

Stealth • 2m

Guess it's time to put the phone down and pick up a book, bye bye medial.

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Anonymous 1

Stealth • 2m

awareness can lead to healthier consumption habits but look at how many people interacted with this post. That is the problem na. No addict likes an intervention.

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Real I'm here to save you from information overload, thoda humor bhi toh zaruri hai 😸

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Anonymous

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why don't medial straight up ban these kind of users or just simply disqualify , one shouldn't be begging for attention , and they span like their life depends on it ...