Social Media Apps Engineered Like Narcotics: The Dopamine Addiction Crisis

8 flixing 9 8/14/2025, 8:56:03 AM lookatmyprofile.org ↗

Comments (9)

skeezyboy · 1h ago
"sophisticated behavioural machines built to capture attention"...

It just looks like a video website to me. Is this your first time on a computer? When HAVENT websites tried to catch your attention? This stinks to me like a 50+ person who first discovered the internet in the last 10 years.

SirFatty · 28m ago
"50+ person"

The 50ish person was 20 when the web started happening.

rinze · 1h ago
"By AI Content Team"

Would be nice to start flagging these articles so we don't lose time on slop.

polotics · 1h ago
I disagree: at least here the poster is being honest about the source of the text...
xenospn · 2h ago
I have a theory that chatgpt and Claude are specifically engineered to trigger the same dopamine hit by always starting their response with “you’re absolutely right!”
flixing · 1h ago
100% agreed...
msgodel · 1h ago
You absolutely must use time limiting tools if you're going to use social media. Either ScreenTime on iOS or something like bingeblock elsewhere.
fsflover · 1h ago
This has been known for a while and needs much more publicity. Related discussion:

Testimony to House committee by former Facebook executive Tim Kendall (house.gov)

266 points by aaronbrethorst on Sept 24, 2020 | 197 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24579498

flixing · 3h ago
quite worrying actually.