I do wish more social media apps took into account the human factor of checking in every so often.
TikTok is the only that I can think of that will try to bring attention to you constantly scrolling and suggest healthy things to do instead.
I think Netflix did something similarly back in the day too and the memes about Netflix knowing you're depressed.
I'm honestly surprised there isn't some kind of moderation from these apps or settings that help you combat addiction across all experiences(mobile/desktop/web/etc), especially when you're depressed. The first thing you might do when battling addiction is remove the apps and only access through a browser. Sadly, that's where all this functionality is built into:
I really don't think you can blame social media for designing something that boosts their revenue; they are incentivized to do that. It is better to educate people to stay away from most of the Social Media sites that are harmful or take up too much of their time. We have made smoking a bad habit, why can't we do that same for Instagram or Facebook?
I've seen plenty of campaigns about smoking being a bad habit, but never social media or internet addiction. Only books or fringe documentaries that get discredited in the news/media due to their incentives.
Part of the Big Tobacco settlement with the gov't was to do those kinds of "negative" campaigns. Social Media hasn't had a DoJ suit against them like Big Tobacco did. So there's a big disconnect on these campaigns as punishment vs 3rd party documentaries and crazy tinfoil hat wearing techno nerds (aka HN readers).
TikTok is the only that I can think of that will try to bring attention to you constantly scrolling and suggest healthy things to do instead.
I think Netflix did something similarly back in the day too and the memes about Netflix knowing you're depressed.
I'm honestly surprised there isn't some kind of moderation from these apps or settings that help you combat addiction across all experiences(mobile/desktop/web/etc), especially when you're depressed. The first thing you might do when battling addiction is remove the apps and only access through a browser. Sadly, that's where all this functionality is built into:
https://www.facebook.com/help/1737706169659354
Instead you have to go nuclear and restrain yourself at the device or internet level instead.