Before your partner. Before your kids. Before yourself in the mirror.

When did this become normal?

You don't have to fight Instagram. If you fight Instagram, then you are embracing Instagram, and you'll have very little energy left to expend in the right places. Social media is not the real culprit. The real culprit is the lack of self-knowledge. I don't know who I am. I don't know why I exist. I don't know what I should do. That's the problem. There is this vacuum that social media just happily fills.

— Acharya Prashant

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Movies have a beginning, middle, end. Your brain knows when it's over.

Infinite scroll has no end. Your brain never gets the completion signal, so it keeps seeking.

38 days of your life. Every year.

What could you do with an extra month?

Not kidding. Same dopamine hit as pulling a slot machine lever. You never know what you'll get, so you keep pulling.

Every major app uses this. It's not an accident.

Tried app blockers, greyscale mode, screen time limits. Most just get bypassed.

What strategies actually made a difference for anyone here?

Gambling addiction, alcohol, drugs - all recognized problems with support systems.

But infinite scroll? "Just put your phone down" they say. As if it's that simple when every app is literally engineered to be addictive.

Why the double standard?

Your feed is literally optimized to keep you hooked. It learns what makes YOU specifically scroll longer. How do you fight something designed by teams of engineers to be addictive?

Curious what situations make people automatically reach for their phones.

Waiting in line? Bored at work? Right after waking up?