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All right, so we're back, and we promised talk of social media because I think everyone, it's pretty hip to the fact now that notifications and the dings and the likes and the loves and the hearts and all the things that come through various, interacting with various social media platforms.

That's great.

In this case, I love being old.

I don't want any of it.

But in any case, all of that stuff combines to give you a hit of dopamine.

And it's specific.

And you're like, fine, that's great, whatever.

But it's specifically structured and built that way and coded that way so that you will become addicted to that social media platform.

And they have admitted as such.

In 2018, it was a big news item when they were, I don't know, it was like congressional testimony or something.

Can't remember exactly, but there was a VP at Facebook who came out and was basically like, hey, this is something we did on purpose.

And it was a core foundation was the really the quote that kind of stuck out with how people behave using our platform.

Like it was a part of the core strategy to get people to come back again and again and again.

Yeah, totally.