Social Media Isn't Just Addictive — It's Addictive By Design
Tristan Harris, a “design ethicist,” was quoted in Irresistible explaining why people have such a hard time resisting certain sites on the internet: “There are a thousand people on the other side of the screen whose job it is to break down the self-regulation you have.”
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz • Everybody Lies: The New York Times Bestseller
For one thing, the internet has taken the reward circuitry meant for social conditioning and has begun to replace it with parasocial conditioning; our reward feedback loops increasingly run through interactions with people we don’t know and may never meet, who have very little information about us or investment in our lives and wellbeing. Parasocia... See more