There's a standard gaming technique in "push your luck" games you can apply to FB use. So obviously the problem is the ratio of reward to risk might be too low

There's a standard gaming technique in "push your luck" games you can apply to FB use. So obviously the problem is the ratio of reward to risk might be too low. The risk is that you can always get more money or property or friends, but your life is very finite and hours that are thrown away can never be recovered. Also the reward is extremely high in the short term (the addicts dopamine hit) and extremely low (zero) in the long term. Given those gaming conditions the typical "push your luck" game mechanic is try it for multiple short but increasing periods of time, evaluate the numerator and denominator at the end of each run, then decide to either stop or keep going. Your standard OODA loop, although the time pressure is unusually low for a OODA loop. For what little it matters, I pushed my luck about six months on FB. Short term gain was high, got lots of "like" clicks and meaningless positive comments, but long term gain was exactly zero. The cost was extremely high, it was like a part time job for awhile, like being addicted to at least two TV shows or at least one sport. I figured at six months in it wasn't going to get any better either WRT reward or WRT timesink, so I stopped. I still have a perfectly good account. I logged in just a week ago and apparently quite a few people wished me a happy birthday, so that's kinda awkward. I'll probably try again in the future, see if anything has changed. Casual examination would imply that over the last five or so years, on FB the extremes have grown and the middle has vanished, people I've friended either post once per season, or dozens of times per day, and there's no one in between who only posts once per day or once per week. Facebook is already dead with young people. My kids burned out on it in about a year, and its dead to them now. If the school district banned it, it must be good, just like how my generation selected music and clothes, so they love yik and snapchat.