It's more like gambling
Is social media more like cigarettes or junk food?
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Re: Is social media more like cigarettes or junk food?
#32Depends. I have quit social media, cigarettes, and nicotine at large. Nicotine was the easiest, cigarettes the hardest.
Re: Is social media more like cigarettes or junk food?
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
What about gambling addiction?
You'll find it's actually "gambling disorder" and it's the only behavioral disorder of it's type grandfathered in to the DSM.
Cool story, homosexuality was a mental illness according to your Bible at some point...
Almost as if science was a fluid thing, almost as if we updated our knowledge as we go, almost as if this was only possible through debating opposing views, very weird....
But you're probably right we should stop even thinking about it, the DSM doesn't talk about it so why would we
Re: Is social media more like cigarettes or junk food?
#34It's more like gambling
It’s almost exactly like a slot machine. You scroll down, and get a randomly scheduled “dopamine hit”.
Re: Is social media more like cigarettes or junk food?
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What about gambling? Definitely addictive without the mechanisms you described above.
I have heard social media described as the attention slot machine.
Re: Is social media more like cigarettes or junk food?
#36Thanks to social media, Facebook in particular, and sometimes Instagram, I have gotten laid. Thanks to social media I have gotten laid more than I otherwise would have, or probably should have.
I have not had the same experience with cigarettes and junk food.
Re: Is social media more like cigarettes or junk food?
#37On the basis of the headline alone, I would say "cigarettes" because I have quit two different social media sites using the technique described in the book "Allen Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking"
Same as cigarettes, much of doomscrolling is just to calm down the anxiety of not doomscrolling. Anxiety that didn’t exist in our lives before social media and one caused directly by its consumption.
Re: Is social media more like cigarettes or junk food?
#38Thanks to social media, Facebook in particular, and sometimes Instagram, I have gotten laid. Thanks to social media I have gotten laid more than I otherwise would have, or probably should have. I have not had the same experience with cigarettes and junk food.
Thanks to social media I got more and more depressed and anxious in my youth. My natural shame evolved into fantastic pathological shame. Took me only 10 years to fight against it and kinda feel normal again. Thank you social media
Edit: social media wasn't the cause, but a lot of fuel
Re: Is social media more like cigarettes or junk food?
#39Thanks to social media, Facebook in particular, and sometimes Instagram, I have gotten laid. Thanks to social media I have gotten laid more than I otherwise would have, or probably should have. I have not had the same experience with cigarettes and junk food.
A hella lot of people have gotten laid with cigarettes, when it was cool.
Also the article is about kids. They have time for this to become a problem.
Re: Is social media more like cigarettes or junk food?
#40Thanks to social media, Facebook in particular, and sometimes Instagram, I have gotten laid. Thanks to social media I have gotten laid more than I otherwise would have, or probably should have. I have not had the same experience with cigarettes and junk food.
A hella lot of people have gotten laid with cigarettes, when it was cool. Also the article is about kids. They have time for this to become a problem.
Not only was it cool, it was also social. I met a lot of people through smoking that I wouldn’t have done otherwise