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Infinite Scroll

  Have you heard about ‘Infinite Scroll’? Yes? No? Do you know what that is? Yes. You know. Either you know about it well or you know what it is but you were never conscious about it or paid attention to it. Yes, it’s that web development technique that makes you scroll endlessly on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and all your favorite social media sites. If you have seen the web in the pre-social media age and remember how the web pages used to be those days, you will realize the difference. There were web sites and then there were web pages within each site. You go through the content on the first page and then click a ‘Next’ link at the bottom of the page to see what is there on the next page. If the content was heavy on each page, you read the entire page and clicked next after that, your fatigue was quicker. If it was just pictures or light content or you just skimmed through those contents, you might be left with some more energy to see more pages. Just clicking the next button ...