I think this assumes people don't have a choice about being "extremely online". As someone who quite literally grew up on the Internet in the early 90s (before

I think this assumes people don't have a choice about being "extremely online". As someone who quite literally grew up on the Internet in the early 90s (before that was common), I have pulled back my engagement significantly in the last 5 years. I'm not on social media at all. And you know what? Other than a few Facebook Groups, I realized I'm not missing much. I rather enjoy living life offline; I'm not obsessed with checking the news 30 times a day or being performative with my posts. The last few weeks have actually been pretty hard for me because it's like being forced to take heroin when you've been clean for a while. But I also have privacy. There are things in my life that I don't feel are even appropriate to broadcast widely, so I don't. You can't really Google me and find anything meaningful. The advertisements I see are not in any way aligned to things I would do / buy, which makes it way more obvious how much advertising we are subjected to. I feel it's a bit like peeking behind the curtain.