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“IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 10 points 6 months ago (1 child)

How is it psuedo science to compare the addicting ways social media affects people and its similarity to drug addiction? It's an analogy, obviously no one is being 100% literal.

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  • [+] -9 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

    "IG is a drug"

    This is not just pseudo-science. It's literally a false statement. Maybe it's a metaphor but science is not a metaphor. Metaphor's are generally a bad foundation for actions based on reality.

    It's ok if people want to compare "social media" to a drug, but there's any meaningful evidence for those claims either so that's pseudo-science too. Notice how all the arguments against "social media" here are based on feelings, stories, etc. while there's zero scientific evidence.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago*

    This is not just pseudo-science.

    This was a quote from internal memos you dolt.

    That they thought this way, and treated it this way, and leaned into it, is the problem.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    Both electronic media (social media, apps) and cigarettes act as quick-hit, artificial sources of dopamine, the brain’s "feel-good" neurotransmitter, which can lead to addiction. Cigarettes/vapes release dopamine through nicotine, while digital media does so through notifications and content, both hijacking the brain’s reward system to create compulsive, repetitive behaviors.

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