Owen

And how do you work to try and get more rewards and less punishment?

And I think that definitely drives a lot of human behavior.

And

I think social media is very much set up to do that very intentionally to get you reward or make you feel rewarded, get you that dopamine hit when you get lots of likes or lots of reposts and great replies.

And when you get all sorts of crap back, you get some of the stress or that sort of thing.

And I think they very much have applied that

um, across all social media, not just X about, you know, how do we keep people addicted to this application?

I mean, there's some lawsuits going on right now about that, um, that meta and, um, I forget, I think it might've been met and it's met and Google, I think are involved with that.

And, um, you know, it's, it's, I think it is very true that at least that they designed those applications to addict you.

And so they, um,

went deep in psychology and figured out, okay, based on all these different characteristics of people, how do we personalize things for people?

How do we give them the things that are going to keep them coming back?

How do we keep them doing engaging?

How do we keep them replying and posting?

And that's all about how do we give them out that dopamine hit, you know, the infinite scroll and you know, like there's always something more to look at and there's another dopamine hit right around the corner.

Um, you know, so I think it's very true that the online environment encourages that kind of behavior.

And I also think, um, and some people point this out from time to time that it's like X isn't real life.

And, you know, there's one reaction to that that's like, well, yes it is.

These are real people saying what they feel.

But, um,