Comment on Instagram boss: 16 hours of daily use is not addiction

• maturelemontree@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That still sounds misleading. He was not speaking for 16 hours of use which is what the headline suggests. As other has stated, I hope those companies crumble but I think honesty is important, not sensationalization.

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  • XLE@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I fear for the future of reading comprehension. The article gives people multiple paragraphs of context to understand addiction as what is being talked about. I don’t expect the word to be wedged into every sentence about the same topic.

    But I do find it much more concerning that Analog appointed himself judge of bad articles, then either accidentally or intentionally omitted these multiple paragraphs.

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    • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I fear for the future of reading comprehension

      I fear for it currently if you think it’s okay to make up things people said and put it in a headline.

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• lmmarsano@group.lt ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  he repeatedly used technicalities and weaseley language to refuse to admit it

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  Yet, Mosseri repeatedly said he was not an expert in addiction in response to Lanier’s questioning.

  Even if a nonexpert claims something is clinical addiction, they’re a nonexpert & their word is meaningless. For a credible statement, they’ll need to admit relevant evidence instead of ask a nonexpert.

  Imagine being asked for a medical diagnosis when you’re not a qualified physician. It’s perfectly fair to point out you’re not an expert on the matter & point out your awareness of distinctions between imprecise conventional language & precise, scientific definitions.

  No one is obligated to volunteer dubious claims to antagonize themselves on the stand just because you want them to.

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  • XLE@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Pam Bondi, is that you?

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• lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  He’s right. Clinical addiction has nothing to do with how much you do something, it has to do with how much it causes problems in your life. I know everyone on Lemmy is tripping over their own hard ons to kill corporations, but there are people using lemmy 16 hours a day and if laws are passed to fight Internet addiction, they will not specifically target corporations. We all go down together. Just ask the creator of Urban Dead.

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  • CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I guess we could chalk it up to bad journalism because the example was purely anecdotal. It‘s frustrating for sure.

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  • frostysauce@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    *hards on

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  • mrbutterscotch@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So someone doing Heroin everday is not addicted if it doesn’t cause any problems in life? Clinical Addiction absolutely does have to do with how much you do something (and other factors of course).

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    • lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s a physical addiction. Drug addiction is a problem physicians handle. Psychologists handle addiction to video games, gambling, sex, the Internet, etc and that’s how they define addiction.

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      • mrbutterscotch@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That is simply not correct. It is true that addiction to substances ends in physical dependency. But at its core all addiction is psychological. A heroin addict doesn’t relapse after two years of being sober because he’s still physically addicted to it. In most cases it’s about missing the capacity for emotional regulation. And people addicted to substances don’t get treated by physicians, at least where I’m from.

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