The piece claims social feeds compress subjective time in two ways: users underestimate time in the moment and later remember little of what they saw. Rapid novelty and context switching blunt awareness and memory encoding, so whole sessions feel brief in retrospect despite lasting hours.
— This reframes online harms from mere distraction to 'time theft' by design, suggesting policy should target features that degrade chronoception and memory.
Gurwinder
2025.08.03
100% relevant
Cited experiments showing TikTok/Instagram users underestimate elapsed time after minutes and studies finding social media impairs short‑ and long‑term memory, plus the '30‑minute ick factor' observation.
Dave Greene
2025.04.23
45% relevant
Greene’s "unbounded flow of hazardous information traps" aligns with the idea that modern information streams degrade attention and memory, offering a mechanism for why populations might adapt by withdrawing from deep reading.
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