This is the light of moral clarity in Mountain View that champions Instagram for Kids [1].
[1] https://www.npr.org/2021/12/08/1062576576/instagrams-ceo-ada...
I’m sure I’ve spent 16 hours on Netflix or League of Legends in a 24 hour period before, yet my median daily usage is 0 hours, and it wouldn’t be reasonable to describe my usage as an addition either.
I’m not saying people don’t get addicted to social media, they do, but in this particular case I think his description of problematic is adequate, and this headline is unnecessarily confrontational.
With 16 hours of daily use (and 8 hours of sleep per day) I wouldn't contrast the batched consumption here on an hours/day-basis, but on a days/year-basis, like going on a trip, a festival etc. Since that basically results in all the days available each year here, it isn't really a practiced ritual anymore, but a complete lifestyle.
People with addiction use substances or engage in behaviors that become compulsive and often continue despite harmful consequences.
This is from the American Society of Addiction Medicine.
You can do your own test if this matches watching short videos extensively.
eating 20 twinkies a day isn't necessarily the norm but twinkies have been formulated to make you want to eat them.
Tobacco defense. He is defending himself in a trial, is a very biased opinion.
> Familial links to lung cancer manifestation first appeared in the literature in the 1960s when siblings were found to have an increase in lung cancer mortality. ... The first published piece of literature attributing cigarette smoking to the growing incidence of lung cancer was in 1912 ... Tobacco companies enlisted the medical and nursing professions to promote the safety of their products in their advertising materials
Stop listening to billionaires and CEOs that profit the most from the damage that their business do to society. They lie for money, as simple as that.
walletdrainer•2h ago
Why does this deserve a headline?
nielsbot•1h ago
thisislife2•1h ago
bdamm•1h ago
Name one thing that is okay to do for 16 hours a day. One.
King-Aaron•1h ago
atomicapple•1h ago
> Instagram boss says 16 hours of daily use is "problematic"
tgv•1h ago
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andsoitis•1h ago
He literally said it is problematic!