Which they probably will, but it won't be labeled as dangerous or
leading to immediate mental harm.

There is already lots of published research on social media addiction that does call it out just that strongly.

There is a reason why that company has started going to great lengths in recent years to make it harder for outside researchers to do similar work.

On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 11:22 AM Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> wrote:

On 10/8/21 17:07, cosmo wrote:

> A psychologist would probably describe this as "self soothing behavior"
>
> An addiction specialist would identify it as illicit drug substitution
> : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7370931/

Which they probably will, but it won't be labeled as dangerous or
leading to immediate mental harm. And as such, will fly under the radar
as an addiction that needs to be managed in the same way we manage
opioid addiction, heroine addiction, sex addiction, alcohol addiction,
nicotine addiction, e.t.c. All the stuff we have anonymous groups and
sponsors for.

Mark.