We are only scratching the surface of our understanding of social media addiction.
I think that aside from content, debate, having an opinion - there is the views/fame concept.
Conan O'Brian said "fame is more addictive and destructive than heroin, and we wouldn't give heroin to children would we?" in reference to the challenges child stars go through.
The addiction of attention I think is overwhelming - it starts with a viral bit of this or that - a new mom on TikTok with videos of her cute kid getting millions of views ... but it grows into an addiction, increasing disruption of daily activities in search of views until for many it seems to consume people.
The overlap of people's actual lives with the content creation, the fact there doesn't seem to be hard boundaries is particularly difficult.
I see most casual content creators with 10K-1M followers almost like pack-a-day smokers, wondering how they deal with all of it.
I think that aside from content, debate, having an opinion - there is the views/fame concept.
Conan O'Brian said "fame is more addictive and destructive than heroin, and we wouldn't give heroin to children would we?" in reference to the challenges child stars go through.
The addiction of attention I think is overwhelming - it starts with a viral bit of this or that - a new mom on TikTok with videos of her cute kid getting millions of views ... but it grows into an addiction, increasing disruption of daily activities in search of views until for many it seems to consume people.
The overlap of people's actual lives with the content creation, the fact there doesn't seem to be hard boundaries is particularly difficult.
I see most casual content creators with 10K-1M followers almost like pack-a-day smokers, wondering how they deal with all of it.