Something by which I cannot abide.

BRUH

so it's double edged?

You should probably read that twice.

Yeah, it says it's mostly good but then implies they should also go outside

In both directions.

Generally positive, but generally negative.

And?

That's just misdirection to "hey, we should talk about this more, but more about the thing we put more words to"

In otherwords, nobody has a consensus

No agreed position

https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/028/596/dsmGaKWMeHXe9QuJtq_ys30PNfTGnMsRuHuo_MUzGCg.jpg

Basically that

So in otherwords, @ETBrooD , you picked a side on the generalization. When the given argument was "sometimes good, and sometimes bad" you picked one side as the argument towards the entire thing.

Not something I can side with.

You draw conclusions even though you haven't even read anything about it?

The very part you've shown me questions whether you read about it, or picked what you wanted to read about it.

I have read an entire book about the study of social media and behavioral addictions

I'm trying to find its name rn

Oh there's a fuckton out there. A lot of it fucking fantastic.

A lot of which I agree with, and I do think social media has been mostly an ill lately.

I think it's called "Irresistible" but I'm not sure

Could be one with a similar name

But I won't make that claim. I cannot know if it is an ill, and I will not generalize.

I get the feeling that search term will yield a lot of porn

Unf

also, food

and food porn

Hey, yeast infections are not sexy

I mean... to... most people. I'm sure there's someone out there.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/W4ikFBSk9jQ/hqdefault.jpg

Yes that's the book, got it in my bookcase

Irresistible goes over the changes in how addiction is perceived and studied, it gives examples of old addictions and modern addictions, and it focuses mostly on behavioral addictions, for example gaming, gambling, but also some of the less obvious ones

It also basically reveals why gaming companies resort to loot boxes and stuff like that these days

Well those just revolve around gambling.

Exploiting people's addictive behaviors, especially from kids

But also WoW is addressed

Comparisons of harmfulness between different drugs

Yeah, the subscription model by its start was a predatory thing.

Yeah, lots of subscription and "free to play" games rely on exploiting addictive mechanisms

Sales of the game alone were enough to keep the game running for two decades with triple the userbase