Your insight is right on point.

We're all hooked on the dopamine these notifications trigger. Smartphones have become a constant distraction. From ourselves. From reality. We can't stay still for 15 seconds anymore. Healthy boredom barely exists.

There's an interesting phenomenon you may have noticed: you're hanging out with friends. Talking. Laughing. The moment one person checks their phone, everyone else follows.

I hope that, 100 years from now, society looks back at social media the same way we now look at how cigars were consumed 50 years ago.