The Social Media Sugar High: Why We Need to Rethink Our Addiction to Infinite Scroll The battle over social media's impact on young minds is heating up, with four states taking Meta to court for allegedly designing Instagram and Facebook to keep users hooked.
The comparison to Big Tobacco is apt – but also incomplete.
Unlike cigarettes, which were never designed to learn what each smoker wanted next, social media platforms like Instagram are perpetually adapting to our desires, often in ways that are detrimental to our well being.