[nobodywillobsrv]

It's worth stating that addictive tech is addictive partly because it doesn't work very well.

So they build useful things and then make them pretty bad and less useful. If they were useful your interest or need would complete and you would move on.

Fundamentally I think it is important to say this. Addiction confounds some things in the space of designed systems

[1718627440]

It depends on what you define their use to be. If the point is to gain data from as much people as possible, they do work pretty well.

[Quarrelsome]

Spot on. Like how Facebook used to be quite useful to stay in touch with friends, or how dating websites used to be kinda decent to find like-MINDED people but have now all been enshittified in order to keep people on them.

[thijson]

I used to not mind my kids watching Youtube on the home TV, but lately when I walk by they are doom scrolling one short after the other. I tell them not to watch shorts, but a day later I walk by and they are back to doom scrolling. I'm finally forced to remove Youtube from the TV. On the phone, Instagram is the same way, I see my teenager doom scrolling it quite often. They claim it helps them relax.