# 刷到为止 / Finite Scroll

> A free, non-profit media-literacy website for secondary-school and university students (ages 13–22), in Simplified Chinese and English. It follows one evening (21:50 to 23:45) and teaches one move: pause first. No login, no ads, no personal data collected; only anonymous, cookieless visit counts. https://finite-scroll.org

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## What the site says, in short

- It is not about quitting your phone. The tagline is “不是叫你别刷，是教你知道什么时候停 / Not ‘stop scrolling’. Just knowing when to stop.”
- Knowing you should stop and still not stopping is common, and it is not laziness. Procrastination research describes it as an emotion-regulation problem: a task feels bad, and the phone is the closest relief.
- Recommendation systems use many signals (watch time, likes, follows, skips, language, location). What you like is reinforced, but systems also keep exploring new topics. No platform publishes verifiable live weights.
- People detect AI-generated video at about chance level, so the site teaches a method instead of “sharp eyes”: find the original source, check the context, search backwards, look for independent confirmation, and treat detectors and content credentials as clues only. Pause before forwarding, and ask who could be hurt.
- To take attention back: change your surroundings instead of relying on willpower, decide an “if… then…” plan in advance, and practise noticing when your mind drifts and bringing it back.
- The mini-games are warm-ups based on classic lab tasks (go/no-go, Stroop, breath counting). The site does not claim they improve attention in daily life.
- Nothing here is screening, diagnosis or treatment.

## Pages

- [Home / 首页](https://finite-scroll.org/): the opening animation, a hold-to-stop interaction, and a draggable timeline of the evening.
- [Chapter 1, 21:50: 为什么停不下来 / Why can’t I stop?](https://finite-scroll.org/ch1): “How many of these are you?”, “It isn’t laziness”, and a recommendation-signal lab.
- [Chapter 2, 22:31: 这个视频是真的吗 / Is this video real?](https://finite-scroll.org/ch2): four group-chat stories and the five-step check.
- [Chapter 3, 23:30: 拿回你的注意力 / Take back your attention](https://finite-scroll.org/ch3): three moves, three one-minute games, an if-then plan, a 7-day experiment and a private check-in board.
- [Sources, privacy & credits / 来源、隐私与致谢](https://finite-scroll.org/sources): all 50 sources (S001–S038, A01–A12) with links and the limits of each study.

## Good to know

- Audience switch: the same content is offered with secondary-school or university scenes.
- Privacy: everything a visitor writes (notes, check-ins, plans, game results) stays in their own browser and can be deleted with one button.
- Voices in chapter 2 are AI-generated and labelled; all pictures are illustrations and all people are fictional.
- Last content check: 2026-11-10.