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?
I know an handful of people that spend quality time surfing through the internet reading and watching people's content all day without doing any productive thing with Thier time. It can even get worse off than gambling because there's an aspect where you consider that you're spending too much time on the net and another which is that you're spending too much of your money in buying data just to watch content.
Even those fellas that are addicted movie frick, they don't see it as any big deal because they term it entertainment but the reality is that it is making them less productive which is almost the same kind of thing that anything that's addictive also does. For gambling, there's even the potential of winning but for those that spend most of there time on the net, apart from the dopamine that comes from enjoying themselves, there's nothing more they are gaining from it.