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1. r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖 (cypnk@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Dec-2019 04:50:46 UTC r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖

   There's a small feature that I think plays a disproportionately large role in why so many people seem to be addicted to social media: Infinite Scrolling

   When you see numbered pages, or even something like a Next / Previous links, there's an internal boundary marker that gets registered that notifies you that a segment or a content block has ended

   This hint is entirely missing in infinite scrolling and it's quite easy to keep going until the battery dies or real life demands immediate attention

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   • r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖 (cypnk@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Dec-2019 04:51:57 UTC r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖

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     It's being sold as a convenience feature, but I think infinite scrolling gets used often to ensure the eyeballs keep rolling

     As long as there enough views, platforms will engineer their UIs to keep users on-page as long as possible

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