Internet addiction and its sinister r underpinnings -

 Media companies—AND  social media businesses design their products and platforms in ways that render them addictive.

As Harris (2018) aptly notes, “never before in history have such a small number of designers—a handful of young, mostly male engineers, living in the Bay Area of California, working at a handful of tech companies—had such a large influence on two billion people’s thoughts and choices.”

Some argue that the way in which social media companies addict their users is demeaning because of how social media platforms get users to provide the very data that will be used to addict them. 

You, the Internet user is the self creator  of your own addiction

Talk about naivety.