Ask yourself the same question but replace "social media" with "tobacco"
replyThat seems like a bizarre comparison. Is TikTok high in nicotine?
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replyHave you ever tried quitting smoking?
replyEasy. I've done it five times in the last three years alone.
replyI don't think this is what quitting means, or was that part of the joke?
replyThat was the joke: it's not easy to quit smoking.
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replyIt means it's addictive
replyWhen I have true contempt for something, I find in quite easy to quit.
replyThere are things I am likely addicted to that I don’t like. I wish I didn’t do them and could stop, but I don’t have contempt for them. I have contempt for social media and even tell my own mother I won’t join when she tells me it would make her so happy if I was on Facebook.
I have observed people who objectively were destroying their lives and yet they themselves were happily in denial.
replyThe clichéd and sadly true "I am in control I can stop everything is fine".
Humans are strange.
Alternatively, it may mean that people are largely hypocritical, and evaluate themselves and other people by different standards.
reply1. Because people like it.
2. “Social media” is not the right term to describe those apps anymore. There’s nothing social about them - just an algorithm feeding you stuff. True social media aren’t that different from forums - places where you can interact with other people (in either healthy or unhealthy way).
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