> Interesting that these topics always focus on smartphones or the Internet... These are well-thought business decisions, made by well-known people. And yet, as a society, we shrink away from talking about them, preferring instead to put blame on incidental topics: the Internet, the smartphones, the engineers building the hardware and software[0].

I mean, this article says as much:

> While there is nothing inherently addictive about smartphones themselves, the true drivers of our attachments to these devices are the hyper-social environments they provide. Thanks to the likes of Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, and others, smartphones allow us to carry immense social environments in our pockets through every waking moment of our lives.

The article even opens with a former executive at Facebook talking about how how guilty they feel for making addictive feedback loops that are damaging to society.