addictive

Regularly consuming an addictive substance then causes a rewiring of several important brain systems, leading the person to crave more and more of it.

“Defendants know children and adolescents are in a developmental stage that leaves them particularly vulnerable to the addictive effects of these features. Defendants target them anyway, in pursuit of additional profit.”

We gave our children the addictive devices—we were addicted to them ourselves—and felt powerless to control the forces we had set loose in our own families.

These platforms are designed to feed content that appeals to the user, and they become addictive quickly, even while they reduce attention span.

Imagine a constant flow of videos as addictive and viral as those on TikTok, but it’s often impossible to tell which are real.