By "everyone" I really meant people building things. IE: If someone builds something with infinite scrolling that's like putting caffeine/alcohol/cocaine in a drink.

Ah okay, I agree. Unfortunately it's really easy for PMs to hide that behind flowery language like "to increase retention rates", "improve user experience", etc.

Sounds like the same mentality which lead to "cause cancer in California". All of the hysterical bullcrap with no sense of proportion leads to being ignored completely. It seems like even with the rise of drug legalization support they learned nothing from the failures of DARE and "scare them straight".

I have a friend early 40s who says I have to download tiktok its so good he spends his evenings in bed with his wife texting links to each other. Not doing a good job marketing it to me

Ask any person in 1950 and I don’t think any will say that cigarettes are harmful. Maybe a ‘bit addictive’…

> But never "I know this is very harmful for my attention span, my mental health, etc".

Early 20's here, and avoid TikTok, Instagram, etc and know Reddit and the like are all of those things listed - though the worst affected for me personally is attention span.

Hacker News might not be the best sample set :p I do all of these too but I really doubt many of my peers do.

I imagine you're quite correct.

I usually just like to chime in when people mention stuff like "no one young <does|knows|cares about> $THING", because I've noticed a trend where the fact that there are young people who care is ignored which I think hurts the case more.

Most of my peers don't care however, at least, not as much as I do though I've made some inroads.