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RE: Internet, Chat-Room, Social Media(Steemit) Addiction
Funnily I got sucked into my first online community here last year and found this place to be pretty damn interesting overall. Where the raw dawg at? Don’t mind a beer or two if we’re near lol
Edit: I wonder where you got inspired by your “diagnosis”. I did some research on cyber identities before back in early 2000s and never considered addiction before, just more on the exploratory, experimental side of pseudoanonymity
This is my first online community as well. Wasn't a social media person until Steem. . .
Was inspired by this community to write the "diagnosis" and also by some things Sean Parker had to say about Facebook.
Here are some of his comments:
With each like and comment, Facebook is “exploiting” human psychology on purpose to keep users hooked on a “social-validation feedback loop,” Parker said, adding that it is “exactly the kind of thing that a hacker like myself would come up with.”
When helping Facebook get off the ground in 2004, Parker said, he and others involved in the nascent social network thought: “How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?”
“And that means that we need to sort of give you a little dopamine hit every once in a while, because someone liked or commented on a photo or a post or whatever. And that's going to get you to contribute more content, and that's going to get you . . . more likes and comments.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/11/09/facebooks-first-president-on-facebook-god-only-knows-what-its-doing-to-our-childrens-brains/?utm_term=.7bb06a9e64dd
Steem could be even more addicting due to the $ rewards. . .
I'm in NYC at the moment. .
Too far! Will have a virtual toast instead :p lol