And for His Next Act, Ev Williams Will Fix the Internet

Re:And for His Next Act, Ev Williams Will Fix the Internet by trhway on Thursday May 10, 2018 @03:50PM (#17042372)

It is exactly in the cigarette sense as both affect the brain through the same dopamine machinery. And personally as a former heavy smoker I don't feel any difference between urge for the next cigarette and the urge to check email, HN comments/responses, etc.

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Re:And for His Next Act, Ev Williams Will Fix the Internet by Yhippa on Thursday May 10, 2018 @05:20PM (#17043073)

This makes me think that we know what the effects of cigarettes are; how long will it be until we see the effects of social media addiction?

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Re:And for His Next Act, Ev Williams Will Fix the Internet by BLKNSLVR on Friday May 11, 2018 @01:13AM (#17045104)

cough Brexit cough cough Trump cough cough Flat-earth conspiracies getting semi-mainstream airplay cough

Whilst that's unfairly flippant, it's too deep and complex to attribute anything specific to social media addiction because it's just a magnification of existing human behaviours.

Normalisation of behaviours on a 'global village' scale. But that's not limited to social media, that's "The Internet" allowing for relatively instant cross-global idea sharing (and included in 'ideas' are stupid things like product-unwrapping videos, video-game streaming with commentary, music, and all the other base shit that people seem to like only because other people seem to like it).

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