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Users didn’t consider them just fine, as they immediately abandoned them when given the chance.
by throwawaysleep 3y ago
Users didn’t consider them just fine, as they immediately abandoned them when given the chance.
- albumen 3y agoThat doesn't mean it's not harming them. Have addicts made the right choice by indulging their weakness?
- Retric 3y agoNew and fun isn't the same as addictive. We don't consider people watching TV, listing to the radio, or reading books as addicts yet people decried each of them as they became ever more popular for ruining the youth etc. People like stimulation and seem to indulge when it's new, but most people also get used to it relatively quickly.
- dylan604 3y agoI think you're trying to move the goal posts. The apps on the new are absolutely without a shadow of doubt trying to make their users addicted. To even suggest they are not addictive is beyond pale, and makes you look like a not serious attempt at the discussion, or worse. Your second sentence is null after your first.
- Retric 3y agoPay to win apps aiming for addiction get a tiny number of whales out of millions of people. So yes apps try very hard, but the vast majority of people just don’t get addicted long term just obsessed for a short period. Compare retention numbers between smoking and clash of clans, a clearly successful pay to win game, and it’s not even close. We could talk about various other apps, but nobody has actually nailed addiction for the general population just the people highly susceptible to such behaviors.
- dylan604 3y agoare you willfully being obtuse to the behaviors of the social apps FB, Tiktok, Twit...er,X and the ilk? Games of course are trying to be addictive to get you to buy more IAP/lootbox/otherHandInPocket concepts. it's like you think a device is only able to play games which is clearly ludicrous.
- Retric 3y agoI simply used gaming to make it clear attempting to be addictive wasn’t the same as actually being addictive. Social Apps rise and fall in popularity just like everything else. Meta has billions of users but that’s split across 4 platforms FB, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger. So clearly popularity isn’t the same as addiction otherwise their FB app would be all they need. Go back a few years and Netflix seem addictive as people binged shows, but I doubt anyone is seriously suggesting they are addictive today. Q.E.D. New and fun isn't the same as addictive.