Using

Our rationalizations for using social media are much more sophisticated than those for using drugs.

Big tech companies are unreservedly proud to call their products “addictive”: they have designed the entire digital landscape, quite consciously, as a space for “users” to “binge.” The result: most smartphone users spend about “a quarter of their waking lives on their phones”, and the “average global internet user now spends 135 minutes per day on the s…