[ColdStream]

I have said it for a long time. Look at the original iPhone release. It was a hyper focused device that was designed to consolidate devices, make using a phone easier so that you could get on with your day.

Once the app store and opened the gate for social media to wonder in, that is when these things got turned into potential addiction machines.

[cubefox]

It already had a browser. You don't need an app when you have a browser. The addiction is built-in as a latent capability.

[roundabout-host]

The browser itself is not the problem, but the way the platforms design themselves to be very addictive.

[exodust]

> very addictive

The "addictive" insisting by 2 new ones in short time? Getting bot vibes. "We need to classify social media as an addictive substance" more or less. Is that from someone's e-safety commissioner? Or someone wanting back-pay compo right back to MySpace addiction. An absurd idea.

"Some people can't control themselves around video games therefore video games bad", that's what social media has copped.

"Addictive" might mean a bloody well designed user interface that users like. Making buttons easy to access and responsive feedback and just the right amount of visual cues and spicy labels, all in harmony as designed and delivered via well engineered mechanisms. "Too addictive, you must now jump through regulatory hoops". No!

[roundabout-host]

No, I don't think that it's about buttons and scrolling. It is simply about what the algorithm promotes. If you look at one thing, even if you decide that you don't like it, they show you more to provoke you. The algorithm should be limited to showing followed pages.

[exodust]

> "show you more to provoke you"

How dare they show people stuff!

Reminds me of the perpetrators of crimes against women who blame what women wear. "She provoked me by showing her ankles! I didn't like it but the next day she was showing me her ankles again!"

[mrguyorama]

This is delusional. Normal people have been calling social media addictive since before facebook existed.

[exodust]

Sugar is addictive. TV is addictive. Reading is addictive. Stuff is addictive. Take some responsibility over your own impulses, desires, and life balance. "Govern me harder daddy" isn't something I subscribe to as a method of dampening the addictive forces surrounding us.

[marysol5]

>Take some responsibility over your own impulses

But they're not, parents aren't employing the very tooling available right now. SM platforms already have a minimum age, and yet many parents are literally friends with their 8yo childs faked profile

[marysol5]

I mean, that's just saying it's 3rd party developers who are the fault.

Like SM companies