basically doomscrolling is aimlessly scrollig through social media without any real intentions. being on social media also generates dopamine which is the same happy hormone that gambling can give you. we both doomscroll or gamble when we are bored. what do you think is worse, gambling or doomscrolling?
is it healthy to engage in these two activities excessively?
There is a mistake in the setup of this thread. You are comparing an extreme form of scrolling to a general form of gambling. The question is what kind of gambling? To make it somewhat equivalent, you have to compare doomscrolling to addictive or obsessive gambling. Both actions are pretty terrible, but in that scenario obviously the gambling is much more dangerous.
If you like being on social media, there is nothing bad about be there if you have time for it, but the difference is that doomscrolling or what you call it is not involving money, but make sure social media does not affect your work and your sleep.
What are you talking about? Social media has a massive negative impact on any psychological metric and including several physiological metrics like sleep.