Is social media more like cigarettes or junk food?

Re:Is social media more like cigarettes or junk food? by superkuh on Thursday January 23, 2025 @01:50AM (#42801367)

You'll find it's actually "gambling disorder" and it's the only behavioral disorder of it's type grandfathered in to the DSM.

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Re:Is social media more like cigarettes or junk food? by djtango on Thursday January 23, 2025 @02:06AM (#42801472)

What is gambling? Does it need to involve money? What is money? Money is a human invention.

So is gambling about resources, power and status? If so then can gambling CS skins count? What about candy crush lootboxes?

If gambling is about risk, does parkour and base jumping count?

One of the most insidious forms of "gambling" I've seen is probably PvP matchmaking. I am fairly certain that games from Supercell have rigged their matchmaking to engineer a degree of frustration to keep you hooked. When you tie that to a ranking ladder it can get quite easy to get hooked

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Re:Is social media more like cigarettes or junk food? by lm28469 on Thursday January 23, 2025 @02:17AM (#42801535)

Cool story, homosexuality was a mental illness according to your Bible at some point...

Almost as if science was a fluid thing, almost as if we updated our knowledge as we go, almost as if this was only possible through debating opposing views, very weird....

But you're probably right we should stop even thinking about it, the DSM doesn't talk about it so why would we

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Re:Is social media more like cigarettes or junk food? by card_zero on Thursday January 23, 2025 @02:35AM (#42801627)

Perhaps this right here is the very process of thinking about it.

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Re:Is social media more like cigarettes or junk food? by superkuh on Thursday January 23, 2025 @10:16AM (#42804825)

I guess you're ignoring the part where this has been a highly studied issue over and over and found lacking.

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