Social media and smart phone attention-grabbers are bad because they bring immediate rewards, but divert you from spending your time and energy on activities th

Social media and smart phone attention-grabbers are bad because they bring immediate rewards, but divert you from spending your time and energy on activities that are less immediately rewarding, but have far higher benefits in the long term. The reason they work is our brains are designed for a foraging tribe existence in which the attention-grabbers a person would encounter generally elicited more functional behavior. I don't think regulation can work here. It seems to me that the solution is some combination of people getting smarter and deciding to get off social media and turn off their smartphones, plus technology like steemit that avoid the economic model of advertising + selling personal data.