Europe watched Russia basically install a foreign asset as the head of state in America using Facebook and Twitter. They are not going to let that happen to themselves.
So for example they have banned young people from social media. That isn't to protect kids, nobody gives a shit about kids even in Europe. That is to do a roundabout way to gradually wean their population off of american-owned social media.
Killing infinite scrolling is part of that too since it does quite a bit of damage to social med
Whenever I go to some forum that's heavy on pictures and videos that has infinite scrolling, and I'm looking far down the page for something or other, eventually my browser slows to a crawl, or the browser's resource-hungry JS engine crashes, and that's the end of the scrolling.
Certain sites I patronize that have the stupid infinite scrolling also have the classic &page= HTTP GET mechanism. On those sites, every once in a while, I reload the entire page with a
It also breaks back button functionality. If you scroll down a long list, then click a link, then go back, chances are it won't scroll to where you were, but just the beginning. And then you'd have to scroll back down again reloading pages along the way.
* Social media are intentionally built around well-known psychological principles that mirror casino design and other habitforming systems.
* Feeds, likes, and notifications are delivered on unpredictable schedules, so you never know when you’ll see something exciting, which strongly reinforces checking “just one more time.” This is the same variable reinforcement pattern used in gambling machines.
* Each like, comment, or new video can trigger small dopamine releases in the brain
The point to disable infinite scrolling is more nuanced, though. The right implementation is correct pagination, that allows you to start reading where you left off. The whole reverse-chronological timelines are a feature to bind your time.
With current systems, you start with recent posts and scroll down in the hope to find where you left off. You have no idea how many posts are in between, and you probably read new to old while scrolling back.
With the systems demanded, you have a permalink to your reading
So for example they have banned young people from social media. That isn't to protect kids, nobody gives a shit about kids even in Europe. That is to do a roundabout way to gradually wean their population off of american-owned social media.
Killing infinite scrolling is part of that too since it does quite a bit of damage to social med
Infinite scrolling == infinite memory usage.
Whenever I go to some forum that's heavy on pictures and videos that has infinite scrolling, and I'm looking far down the page for something or other, eventually my browser slows to a crawl, or the browser's resource-hungry JS engine crashes, and that's the end of the scrolling.
Certain sites I patronize that have the stupid infinite scrolling also have the classic &page= HTTP GET mechanism. On those sites, every once in a while, I reload the entire page with a
It also breaks back button functionality. If you scroll down a long list, then click a link, then go back, chances are it won't scroll to where you were, but just the beginning. And then you'd have to scroll back down again reloading pages along the way.
Pagination is a good thing.
* Feeds, likes, and notifications are delivered on unpredictable schedules, so you never know when you’ll see something exciting, which strongly reinforces checking “just one more time.” This is the same variable reinforcement pattern used in gambling machines.
* Each like, comment, or new video can trigger small dopamine releases in the brain
The point to disable infinite scrolling is more nuanced, though. The right implementation is correct pagination, that allows you to start reading where you left off. The whole reverse-chronological timelines are a feature to bind your time.
With current systems, you start with recent posts and scroll down in the hope to find where you left off. You have no idea how many posts are in between, and you probably read new to old while scrolling back.
With the systems demanded, you have a permalink to your reading