[lordnacho]

Cognitive tax sure, but in the end it's up to you whether you are going to browse all day.

The big one is that your boss can easily throw around your zero-hours "contract" when everyone has a leash. Before mobile phones that wasn't quite so easy. If you were out with your family you couldn't get called and threatened into taking another shift.

[suriyaG]

This is an interesting comparison. Phones with "freedom of choice". I think freedom of choice, Varies drastically Based on the layer where one exists in society.

For example, Instagram pushing/peer-pressuring people to travel/buy/share more feels fine to me when it is an average household with with some level of stability. This is not true everywhere.

I'm talking about families whose total monthly earning is about 150 dollars. Families where the easier choice was to not go to the hospital for leukemia and let them be, than go to a hospital. Where a second Girl child is as close to a bad news as it gets. And yet and yet almost everybody with a smartphone within these community, scrolls through infinite feeds of tik-tok like content, for hours on end.

The way I see it, these social media are very similar to alcohol/other drugs. An infinite cage, from which There is little to no escape. Facebook is as close to a quicksand as it gets. Progressively pulling people in and keeping them where they are, not letting them go where they could be.