It boils down to a war on attention. These companies want your attention, they use abusive notifications, gamification, and the like to try and get that initia

It boils down to a war on attention. These companies want your attention, they use abusive notifications, gamification, and the like to try and get that initial eyeball, than everything from there is about minimizing boredom, and maximizing interest and attention. "Our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit" (https://xkcd.com/915/ https://xkcd.com/915/) Everything about the modern app is designed from the ground up to be interesting in some way or another, to avoid becoming boring after long use. But overuse is messing up how we frame what is really boring, kinda boring, sorta interesting, etc. The sad truth is the answer is very likely regular periodical boredom, keep the brains auto scale system in check. I wonder how effective just explaining this concept to kids or young adults would be at minimizing this.