Brittany Luce

Okay, I'm going to pose an impossible question to you.

It's a totally not a yes or no question that I'm going to pose to you as a yes or no question.

Is social media addictive?

Yeah, I was going to say, I mean, to follow up.

Okay, so I ask because I guess if I'm being honest here, like I reach for my phone automatically in almost every situation.

When I first wake up, when I'm bored, when I'm stressed, or even when I, I don't know, want to connect with someone or make a post for work.

It's so ingrained in my brain and in my hands.

It's like an overwhelming physical and psychological urge.

It feels like an addiction.

I'm not like this about anything else in my life.

Is this a fair...

description of my experience?

And if not, what's a better way to describe what I'm experiencing?

Like basically the impulse to pick up my phone and check social media before I would even consciously be able to apply will in that situation.

I mean, I think you're absolutely right about that.

I don't know a person who feels normal about the internet in 2026.

Okay, so you brought up a couple different things.

types of addiction.

And it seems that social media falls under one of these categories.

So I want to understand the difference before we go any further between behavioral addiction or like substance-based addictions.