Dr. Alok Kanojia

You can't get the oxytocin.

You know, there are some things that online relationships can't provide.

And what's scary is all these platforms are getting better.

Yeah.

I'm yeah.

So so I would say that it does serve as some kind of participation.

Yeah.

So so in a comment section and I don't know if you've you know, you've done this or not, but like there's a lot of like great engagement.

Right.

So it used to be like, OK, if I watch a movie, I'm like, OK, that movie was great.

But now the actors in the movie are responding to my comments.

I'm responding to their comments.

We're seeing a trend actually, especially on TikTok, where there's a lot of like video responses that really cause, you know, particular clips to grow.

Absolutely.

And so the more that they create a platform that allows you to feel like you're in it, the more addictive it's going to be, the more of your brain it's going to activate.

And it'll sort of...

manage that loneliness, right?

So when you talk about gas station food, it'll give you calories, but it may not give you nutrition.

And that's something that I see that's really scary is, you know, one of the things that really frightens me, so I work predominantly with...

about 70, 30 men, women, an average age of about 32.