>Social media is designed to be addictive, and it seems reasonable to ban addictive things for kids by default. Like certain types of food? Watching TV? Playin

>Social media is designed to be addictive, and it seems reasonable to ban addictive things for kids by default. Like certain types of food? Watching TV? Playing video games? Reading (fiction) books? Getting into relationships/making friends? Pretty much everything great in life can become an addiction. If the claim is that social media is designed to be addictive, therefore we should ban it, then I would love someone being able to demonstrate that and that in this instance it's worse than usual. I want to see what "rules" they use to design something to be addictive, but I don't think this demonstration is ever going to happen, because social media isn't designed to be addictive - nobody knows how to do that. It's iteratively designed. They try stuff and make more of what works.