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by pestaa 5257 days ago
A young (~16yo) male relative of mine just spent half a day in my home - in front of his smartphone, to be precise. All the time he'd hit the refresh button and scroll through the same FB news feed again for the 100th time.

There is a potentially dangerous feedback effect in social sites imho. Experts will probably better articulate what the trigger is.