I watched a wonderful video about this very topic. A lot of people are doom scrolling their way through feeds and not allowing agency (ie, their alleged free will) to let them be masters of their own destiny.
Simultaneously, I am frustrated at the way in which that "doom scroll" has people looking for nothing in particular, but they want something, therefore it ends up akin to a video poker machine where when they do get what they "wanted" to see (instead of doing a damn search) - they get a dopamine hit which gets them to keep doom scrolling.
I observe this in my wife and it frustrates me deeply.
I was just trying to explain this to my wife and she didn't seem to fully get the difference between "looking for updates from friend" and looking for an update from a friend. One is a scroll hoping to passively find something interesting - the other is a directed search for a particular piece of information. The intention is very different.