He is not qualified to identify what is and isn’t addiction. He is qualified to demonstrate he’s a psychopath.
“Because like 10hr of that is background usage while we harvest your data.”
I child a day is not a pedophile.
A child a day keeps the Attorney General away!
If this Instagram guy was as dodgy about defining pedophilia as he was about defining addiction, everybody here would have no trouble identifying him as a pedophile protector
They want to be an integral part of our lives, like thinking, except they’ll take the place of thinking, or talking, or even looking around.
A system that benefits people who lie about objective facts should be destroyed.
If the tactical business decision is to look someone in the face and say “spending 2/3rds of a day, 16 whole hours, idly gazing at photos of anything is not an addiction” in order to protect business interests, then things are wrong. Addiction to a product should be met with horror! Oh no, how could this happen? Instead, it’s part of the business model.
“Business” is a blight.
spending 2/3rds of a day, 16 whole hours
Even worse: if you get a proper night’s sleep, 16 hours is literally the entire day. Dude is saying if you are getting healthy amounts of sleep, it is perfectly acceptable to spend 100% of your time doom scrolling on their website. No eating, no going to work, no showering.
It’s an absurd statement.
What do you even do on Instagram for 16 hours?
idk but the fact that people do that is sad as fuck
Why do ppl spend hours on slot machines in bars and casinos? What are they doing during all those hours?
FB, IG, TikTok, Candy Crush etc. are all using those exact same techniques to get you hooked like junkies.
It’s literally a crime a against humanity.
My ex was super depressed. Long story short she was struggling with sexuality. I watched her spend literal hours on the couch scrolling insta. She got deep into Reels and would watch them all day. The algorithm is so addicting. It kept her eyes glued. She also ended up down the self diagnosed rabbit hole deciding she had all sorts of mental illness. It was awful.
I only have an Instagram account to follow when special beers are released by a local brewery. That’s their only method of communication, which is annoying.
I have found myself on IG watching skateboarding or cliff diving videos for 15 or 20 minutes before catching myself. It’s crazy how addicting it can be. I’m not doom scrolling or even researching a hobby I often do. I just find those videos fascinating, and it keeps feeding that to me. I just don’t open IG anymore.
You can set limits with warnings. It’s super helpful. I get a warning if I’ve spent more than 15 minutes a day on it. It actually cuts me off after 30.
I just don’t use it anymore. Saves me money on beer. I opened it up last week for the first time in 2 months to see if Pliny the Younger was on tap at a local bar.
I recommend imginn for checking instagram via a browser. I use it for basically the same reason, checking on local businesses.
Doom scroll
I’ve known drug dealers more honourable than this.
They’ll say everything and exploit anyone for their numbers.
Such a moral way to run a whole economic philosophy.
I don’t even use “being awake” 16 hours a day 😂
You can trust ol empty eyes there. He knows what he is lying.
Do better, BBC.
Why does he look like Steve Carrell playing a sociopathic big tech asshole?
Thought it was the Verizon guy.
Like in Mountainhead.
He looks like David Wallace
Life is better without selling your data.
Selling our data implies that we get to have profits.
Life is better without companies selling our data.
Might be tad more on point.
Philip Morris: 1 pack of cigarettes per day is not addiction.
Greatest accomplishment of my life was quitting cigarettes.
Congrats!
Thank you. And to anyone out there trying to quit. You have to try out vaping and then when you get sick of getting sticky from the juice. You’ll finally want to just stop.
I did both for a while, smoking and vaping. A place I shop at was giving away cans of nicotine pouches when you bought a pack of cigarettes for a little while.
One day I was starting at the nicotine pouches and thought, “fuck it, let’s add another addiction to the mix.” Over three hours later I realized I hadn’t even thought of a cigarette or vape yet and I didn’t feel like one even though I was thinking about it then. A lightbulb went off in my head.
I think I bought one more pack of cigarettes after that. I quickly went down to a few cigarettes a day, then down to two cigarettes a day, then one for a few days, and then none. Vapes were just an indoor substitute for cigarettes, once I didn’t want cigarettes I didn’t want to vape, either. It took me about a month after that to wean off the pouches, too.
Yeah but i spend 0 hours a day on social media. There is someone out there that reads 16 hours a day and bo one calls books addictive.
