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I get your metaphor but a store doesn't follow you 24/7 and keeps nagging you to check it. Unless it's Amazon. At least with Amazon you're spending tangible th

I get your metaphor but a store doesn't follow you 24/7 and keeps nagging you to check it. Unless it's Amazon. At least with Amazon you're spending tangible things: money + time (browsing) so you can feel the dent in your wallet/credit card eventually, which signals you to take it easy. With Facebook most people spend countless hours and there's no party telling you to chill out. Everything is enforcing you to stay on the platform. Even Netflix has some a screen popping up after 2-3 hours of binging to make sure you're still watching, giving some friction to the consumer. There's no noticable friction built into Facebook.

Cosmin_C 5y ago
This reminded me on how nice Netflix was when it started and how obnoxious it has become. Just like Amazon and Facebook. Small starts, nice things. Then it starts being mildly annoying, then it just intrudes everywhere in your life (like your other browsing tabs and what not). Netflix was nice because there were no ads. At the same time can I binge on a series without being irked every x minutes if I'm still there or not? Maybe I am, maybe I am not, maybe I am chilling with my SO, it's none of their damn business and at the same time it doesn't do anything helpful except nag you.