> They are great utilities to have but some of the applications on them people can't help but be addicted to It's worth remembering that much of the addictiven

> They are great utilities to have but some of the applications on them people can't help but be addicted to It's worth remembering that much of the addictiveness of consumer oriented services is informed by the work of BJ Fogg, a professor a Stanford [1]. While it's hard to lay the burden for Instagram/Facebook/Twitter etc. entirely at his door; it is the simple minded application of his ideas to the urgent necessity to grow and hold an audience that has created the recent plague of attention sinks that do little to make people's lives better. 1. http://captology.stanford.edu/projects/behaviordesign.html http://captology.stanford.edu/projects/behaviordesign.html