Taylor Lorenz

That law was written in the 1980s.

So I think there's just so many, not to mention data privacy.

There's just a lot that we could do that would fix pretty much almost all of these problems, I'm willing to bet, that parents kind of think.

But making this dumb show trial where Meta pays $6 million, something they can make up in an instant, and an abusive parents are rewarded for nothing, we don't get any meaningful change from that.

It's very silly.

You know, I was talking to a big time safety researcher recently about, um, about this idea of dopamine.

And she was saying like, it's not based on anything.

And like dopamine is actually pretty good.

Like, you know, you get a lot of dopamine from snuggling puppies.

If you were snuggling puppies for 10 hours, you know, would that be harmful?

No.

She was saying that like what she sees from her research is primarily that, um,

the sort of response that's elicited when people scroll through these feeds is actually, sorry to say it, clavicular.

I feel like the clavicular guy, but like it's a cortisol spike.

So it's spiking your cortisol, which is keeping you hyper engaged.

And what that is, is actually a stress response.

And I think we all feel that when we use our phone.

I think if we were getting dopamine, which is like what we get from listening to a pleasurable song or like a great album, right?

Like that's why there's not the same moral panic about Spotify as there is, you know, meta when Spotify actually has more of the addicting features that we put on trial, you know, that put meta on trial for.

But I think we're getting this stressful content.