What’s the question here / how was the data gathered? Is it just asking a bunch of people “why is it so hard to break free of smartphone dependency,” or is it behavioral analysis? Something else?
The irony of finding this at 11pm on my phone is not lost on me.
It is the bright candy colors. If I switch my smartphone into grayscale mode (which you can do on many smartphones in the Accessibility settings) then it instantly becomes MUCH less interesting to me. So much so that after 20 minutes of using it in grayscale mode, I’m kinda bored of it and put it down and do something else.
The same thing works for TV: turn the color level down to zero and it becomes MUCH less addictive.
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It’s designed to addict you among other reasons.
B.F. Skinner answered this for us:
[It’s a Skinner Box](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning_chamber).
What’s the question here / how was the data gathered? Is it just asking a bunch of people “why is it so hard to break free of smartphone dependency,” or is it behavioral analysis? Something else?
The irony of finding this at 11pm on my phone is not lost on me.
It is the bright candy colors. If I switch my smartphone into grayscale mode (which you can do on many smartphones in the Accessibility settings) then it instantly becomes MUCH less interesting to me. So much so that after 20 minutes of using it in grayscale mode, I’m kinda bored of it and put it down and do something else.
The same thing works for TV: turn the color level down to zero and it becomes MUCH less addictive.