Wow, profound realization and so grateful you are you, and wish to add the least stress possible to our UX, thank you! 🙏💜
I remember once watching a short doc, called ‘The Dark Side of Smart Phone’, and it was really mostly focused on social media and how they had studied the endorphin rushes of people gambling and then used that to teach them how to get us as addicted as possible.
One of the bazaar things I learned was that they realized that if people kept winning, they lost interest quicker than if they won only sporadically, so they used that information to teach the algos to show posts to different groups so when you post something and get an endorphin rush from lots of likes, and then try a similar post to get another rush you get only a few likes on the second one.
This incentivizes people to keep trying to replicate the success of the previous post … ‘eyes on the screen’ being the whole goal, so they can increase ad revenue by boasting how addicted people are to their app