Chain Scrolling

Chain Scrolling (Verb)

1. Utilizing your smart phone for shopping/'Google' researching/Being naughty on 'Tumblr' purposes etc.; with the action of thumbing upward on your screen.

Abby - "I was edging on tumblr all day yesterday..."

Jessica - " Chain Scrolling on fleek "

'Laughter'

by JLHWHLSF July 31, 2017

chain scrolling

When you have the tablet scrolling one social feed and the phone scrolling another.

Angelfire, MySpace and ICQ were Gateway 2000 apps to chain scrolling.

by Master Rob Sauce August 10, 2017

tumblr scrolling

Intentionally meant to sound innocent when in reality the user is deliberately viewing pornogrpahic content or pages that are NSFW.

Guy: hey what’re you up to?

Girl: not much buying a palette on hush.com you?

Guy: just Tumblr scrolling right now.

Girl: oh cool.

Guy: *breaks the fourth wall and smirks at the audience*

by Elkrisreal December 5, 2017

Bedtime Scrolling

The act of going trough social one last time before going to bed. Usually done in your bed.

Well huny, its time for me for some bedtime scrolling and then Im off to bed.

by Crashy873 August 21, 2019

Boom scrolling

Avoiding doom of social media & news outlets and diving into God’s word — aka BOOM scrolling 🔥🔥🔥

Damn son, he BOOM scrolling the word of God & it’s giving him life

by BatmanDadadada September 19, 2020

Shit Scrolling

Scrolling through social media during a bowel movement.

My legs fell asleep while shit scrolling too long.

by RRRL October 19, 2020

Fritter Scrolling

Wasting time, energy or money, scrolling aimlessly through frivolous content on social media, websites or video sharing sites. Could also be loosely be referred to as Idle Scrolling, which is spending time doing nothing, albeit one is scrolling, they are scrolling without purpose, aim or goal.

The concept is also applied to wasting time through other means, see Fritter Lifing.

I was fritter scrolling and didn't realise how much time had past.

by Milky786 May 21, 2023