[thybag]

Hard to tell from the article if this is something specific to "social media" scrolling, or (as my guess would be) just a finding that reading via scrolling is potentially bad for your eyes.

Be interested to understand if other ways of consuming content (swiping pages or whatever) would be better, as I do almost all my reading on my phone these days, so would prefer not to screw my eyes.

[mewpmewp2]

I don't even understand what leads to the exact conclusion that it is bad for the eyes.

[lm28469]

Repetitive movements of tiny muscles that were never designed to do that kind of movements in the last millions of years of evolution and suddenly have to handle it hours per day.

That can be applied the same to pretty much every modern physical problem (diet, sitting all day, bad posture, carpal tunnel syndrome, &c.)