As the summer months roll along, you might feel powerless to tear your eyes and thumbs from the phone and actually get outside to enjoy the weather. But it's not your fault, experts say, because the companies that design our devices are intentionally working to make them addictive.As the summer months roll along, you might feel powerless to tear your eyes and thumbs from the phone and actually get outside to enjoy the weather.
"We don't realize it, because the designs that tech companies have made to keep us online longer are invisible to us," said Gaia Bernstein, a technology, privacy and policy professor at Seton Hall Law School in Newark, N.J., and author of"They also want to make sure that we think it's our responsibility. And that's a very old trick that corporate industries have used for many years.
The concept isn't unfamiliar if you've played any number of mobile games with friendship networks, such as Pokémon Go. But streaks have become so popular that in March, Snapchat introduced a wayBernstein said the feature, introduced in 2015, is more about revenue than user engagement. "The whole idea is to get people on Snapchat so they will see the advertising," she said.In 2019, the U.K.
Lembke said people often start overusing an app or device for many of the same reasons they might use a drug. Lembke said there's a "general consensus" among health-care providers that people can be addicted to technology; however it's not currently included in theDr. Anna Lembke, a psychiatry professor and author of Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence, says people often start overusing an app or device for many of the same reasons they might use a drug.
Bernstein said she doubts these tools are very useful for weaning people off of devices that were designed to encourage compulsive use in the first place.
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