{"id":993,"date":"2025-01-26T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/?p=993"},"modified":"2025-01-26T21:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T21:27:08","slug":"pope-warns-of-scrolling-brain-rot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/26\/pope-warns-of-scrolling-brain-rot\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope warns of scrolling \u2018brain rot\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pope Francis made his remarks in an address to journalists at the Vatican<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pope Francis has warned Catholics of the risk of \u201cbrain rot\u201d<\/em> from excessive social media scrolling, calling on \u201ccourageous\u201d<\/em> journalists to tell \u201cstories of hope\u201d<\/em> to the public instead.<\/p>\n

The pontiff made his remarks in an address to journalists and other communications professionals at the Vatican on Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cCommunication means stepping outside ourselves a bit to give something of myself to another,\u201d<\/em> he said, before calling on young people to exercise greater critical thinking skills and avoid giving themselves \u201cbrain rot\u201d<\/em> from excessive social media use.<\/p>\n

\u201cBrain rot\u201d<\/em> is a slang term commonly used by \u2018Gen Z\u2019 to describe a state of alienation stemming from the overconsumption of online content.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need courageous entrepreneurs, courageous information engineers, so that the beauty of communication is not corrupted,\u201d<\/em> he said to the assembled journalists, calling on them to \u201ctell stories steeped in hope, be concerned about our common destiny, and strive to write together the history of our future.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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The pontiff also drew attention to the 120 journalists who lost their lives in 2024, many of them covering the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza.<\/p>\n

This is \u201ca difficult moment in the history of humanity, with the world still wounded by wars and violence, by the shedding of so much innocent blood,\u201d<\/em> he said, adding \u201cwhen you report on evil, leave space for the possibility of mending what has been torn.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Pope Francis is a regular critic of social media. Last summer, he cautioned that these platforms \u201calienate young people.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cToday, how many hours does a person spend in front of the TV or on their little phones? How many hours?\u201d<\/em> he asked in an interview with CBS News at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pope Francis made his remarks in an address to journalists at the Vatican Pope Francis has warned Catholics of the risk of \u201cbrain rot\u201d from excessive social media scrolling, calling on \u201ccourageous\u201d journalists to tell \u201cstories of hope\u201d to the public instead. The pontiff made his remarks in an address to journalists and other communications…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":997,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions\/997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}