At this stage for the overwhelming majority. Probably not.
More effective strategy in the long term that would avoid chaos of cutting 100s of Millions of addicts off cold turkey. Would probably be to start weaning people off it. And begin actively implementing regulations of the industry.
But by its nature it’s going to run contrary to the “Free Market” and natural business incentives. As you are essentially trying to eliminate your customer base. Which is contradictory to the inherent purpose of driving usage and profit the tech companies thrive off of.
Which is ultimately what caused the problem in the first place. They set out to make it addictive. They succeeded.
The Tech sector and gaming is one of the major employers of Psychologists and Psychiatrists. Almost beating out the medical and food industries. And their primary duties in tech are to make the products more addictive.
I have noticed since Trump met with Zuckerberg, the platform for Instagram has changed from 30 second videos to longer videos ranging from one minute, to four minutes. This started happening right around the election. More and more of the videos are longer now, and I think they’re gently trying to bring people back to a more reasonable attention span.
Would a blackout repair humanity?
If you have a town of people addicted to heroin/meth/alcohol/etc and the supplier suddenly ran out of product, what do you see happening?
There would be a run on doritos for sure
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At this stage for the overwhelming majority. Probably not.
More effective strategy in the long term that would avoid chaos of cutting 100s of Millions of addicts off cold turkey. Would probably be to start weaning people off it. And begin actively implementing regulations of the industry.
But by its nature it’s going to run contrary to the “Free Market” and natural business incentives. As you are essentially trying to eliminate your customer base. Which is contradictory to the inherent purpose of driving usage and profit the tech companies thrive off of.
Which is ultimately what caused the problem in the first place. They set out to make it addictive. They succeeded.
The Tech sector and gaming is one of the major employers of Psychologists and Psychiatrists. Almost beating out the medical and food industries. And their primary duties in tech are to make the products more addictive.
I have noticed since Trump met with Zuckerberg, the platform for Instagram has changed from 30 second videos to longer videos ranging from one minute, to four minutes. This started happening right around the election. More and more of the videos are longer now, and I think they’re gently trying to bring people back to a more reasonable attention span.
Instagram reels is the most based social media there is.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DF1jFCYs_yS/
I just posted this on PDW
This!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 I can’t upvote this response enough! 😀
A detoxing. Which is why MAHA’s success is desperately needed.
I sometimes wonder if this might be the way. Someone doing evil for control, but the actual outcome is good as it wakes people up from their slumber.
South Park has covered this exact scenario. The answer is… no, lol