Brittany Luce

How would you describe it?

Right, right.

And like any other sort of like behavior or habit, there's like usually cues or there's context that puts you in the position to perform that behavior.

Okay, so when I spoke earlier to one of my wonderful colleagues at NPR, Shannon Bond, she mentioned that social media companies argue that there isn't a clinical diagnosis for social media addiction.

Right.

I'm reading here that S-N-U-D, social network use disorder, is essentially referring to problematic social media use.

Addicted to blogging?

Okay, so if there's not really like a clinical diagnosis for this,

I feel like there's not nothing going on.

Like what's happening to my brain when I'm doom scrolling, or even when I'm just cycling through the same social media apps on my phone over and over.

I hadn't heard that one.

Behaviors make sense.

I have therapy today.

So I'm like, okay, I'm bringing that.

You know, for a lot of people like myself, social media is totally knitted into the fabric of our lives.

Like it's how we get invitations to birthday parties or public service announcements about inclement weather from Mayor Mamdani's office.

Dates are organized through social media, jobs, career opportunities, etc.

How do we manage that personally?

And also, are there interventions that might help us manage that systemically?

I mean, I need to actually, I'm like fighting, I need to buy a new phone.