Mindless Doomscrolling

presuming most of the users of this site are founders, i'm trying to gauge how intense is doomscrolling (short-form content) hurts your productivity.

i personally have spent closer to 5k hours of my life doomscrolling through tiktok. and i'm on the healthier end compared to the average american 21 year old. i delete the app, redownload, & blockers really never work for me.

i think there's .1% of value that's provided by these content, or sometimes you want to wind down and actually let the algorithm take control of your mind. we all know the problem, but if you can put a number on how much this is hurting your life? what would that be?

this is a serious problem i want to fix, before having kids. all research points to the fact that doomscrolling leads to less critical thinking of the mass population & many other problems we as a society face today.