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Your brain was never designed for this much bad news
Humans evolved to pay close attention to danger, but today that instinct is being overwhelmed by an endless supply of bad news from around the world. Researchers say the answer isnāt to stop following current eventsāitās to build healthier habits around how, when, and where we get our news.
The author mentions that we're now "exposed to a constant stream of negative information," but doesn't really address how social media algorithms specifically create this overloadāhow does the fact that we're getting curated bad news rather than just random news affect our psychological response? And why is the solution presented mostly about individual willpower rather than questioning the systems that deliver this constant stream?
The comment makes a good point about algorithms, but I think the article actually does touch on that implicitly when it talks about how our brains aren't equipped to process "constant stream" of informationāsocial media is just the mechanism that delivers it, not the root problem. The real issue is that we're getting 24/7 updates from every possible source, not that the algorithms themselves are different from how they've always been.