The machine always wins : what drives our addiction to social media
▻https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/23/social-media-addiction-gambling
Social media was supposed to liberate us, but for many people it has proved addictive, punishing and toxic. What keeps us hooked ? We are swimming in writing. Our lives have become, in the words of the author and academic Shoshana Zuboff, an “electronic text”. Social media platforms have created a machine for us to write to. The bait is that we are interacting with other people : our friends, colleagues, celebrities, politicians, royals, terrorists, porn actors – anyone we like. We are not (...)
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