#social-media-addiction

#social-media-addiction

When AI wearable company Friend blanketed New York City with ads last month, there was significant backlash. Many of the company's ads (which included rage-baiting copy like, "I'll never bail on our dinner plans") ended up defaced with graffiti that called the product "AI trash," "surveillance capitalism," and a tool to "profit off of loneliness."

Those whose use followed an increasingly addictive trajectory had roughly double the risk of suicidal behaviour at the end of the study.

"...recent research attributes this sort of habit-forming behavior to the release of dopamine that comes with a social media visit, the apps triggering our reward centers..."