> “It seems like an addiction,” says Beth, a 51-year-old lawyer from Ohio, who tells me she has watched her 84-year-old mother’s attention span atrophy over the past few years. “It kind of has the same symptoms — getting fussy if she’s not online or just constantly going back to try and get online.”
It seems like because it’s exactly like. A constant dopamine drip. That’s what social media is optimized for. Not the media. Not the social. The dopaminification of the user base.
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IntelligencerThe 75-Year-Old ScreenagersSeniors are spending more time than ever on their slop-filled, scam-riddled feeds. It has become their adult children’s job to save them.