[hisfraudulency]

There's an incredible cultural contempt for social media, everyone recognizes the harms, but we collectively spend more and more time on social media apps.

Wat mean?

[estimator7292]

Ask yourself the same question but replace "social media" with "tobacco"

[ThrowawayTestr]

Have you ever tried quitting smoking?

[Gormo]

That seems like a bizarre comparison. Is TikTok high in nicotine?

[fullshark]

It means it's addictive

[expedition32]

I have observed people who objectively were destroying their lives and yet they themselves were happily in denial.

The clichéd and sadly true "I am in control I can stop everything is fine".

Humans are strange.

[Gormo]

Alternatively, it may mean that people are largely hypocritical, and evaluate themselves and other people by different standards.

[al_borland]

When I have true contempt for something, I find in quite easy to quit.

There are things I am likely addicted to that I don’t like. I wish I didn’t do them and could stop, but I don’t have contempt for them. I have contempt for social media and even tell my own mother I won’t join when she tells me it would make her so happy if I was on Facebook.

[justapassenger]

1. Because people like it. 2. “Social media” is not the right term to describe those apps anymore. There’s nothing social about them - just an algorithm feeding you stuff. True social media aren’t that different from forums - places where you can interact with other people (in either healthy or unhealthy way).