Andy Walsh2x Exited Founder, Startup Strategist & Podcast Host

The truth about social media and the scroll problem

23 Apr 2026 · 0 min

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Andy Walsh describes social media as a social experiment gone wrong, tracing how platforms shifted from genuine connection to mindless scrolling and digital overload. He argues we've hit a breaking point where rapid expansion has outpaced our ability to handle it.

social experiment of how people flick through their social media and engage. And there has to be a breaking point as human beings.
Yeah.
Over the last probably 20 years, we've went from having no social media to being connected to friends and it felt positive to now where it feels like it's completely overwhelming and this reset that's happening, but alongside a world that is so growing quickly from a digital perspective, there's a real tension that exists between those two.
Is because if you look at sort of the, the behavior on social and how it's like, you're not engaging, you're just doing. So like, what's the thumb stop? Like, that's like a big thing. Like, what are you going to do that's going to stop the scroll?