What do you think contributes to some people's tendency to develop a social media addiction while others don't? (lemm.ee)

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[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 6 points 4 weeks ago

The same factors that make people more prone to gambling addictions or gaming addictions basically.

And that's not just me being sarcastic, social media companies literally gave their algorithms instructions which more or less guarantee that content will be presented in a way to strike those same addictive nerves as other gameified addiction traps.

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