This article in Vox contains an
interview with a psychologist about technology companies using deliberate persuasive
techniques to make children get addicted to technology. The article refers to
Common Sense Media which states that children today have ten times more screen
time than they did in 2011 and spend six hours and forty minutes on average using
technology. I, myself, have noticed my young teenage cousins using their phones more than we did ten years ago. Whereas we spent playing and wrestling on the ground
for hours, they do so on their technology tools today thanks to unethical persuasion
techniques used by tech corporations for their own business interests. These
companies hire mental health experts, psychologists and other behavioral
scientists to create products that are addictive. We need not go further but
look around ourselves to find out whether they are being successful or not. The
forced addiction, as I would like to call it, is certainly an alarming issue
affecting the lives of millions of people, both young and old, worldwide.
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