16 hours on social media is an ‘addiction’ – but you’re not far off

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04/10

KGM's lawyers framed Instagram and Youtube as "digital casinos" A young woman in the US stood up in court and said she spent 16 hours a day on Instagram. It’s a hefty figure, yet a closer look at the ...

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It’s a hefty figure, yet a closer look at the platform’s own research into algorithmic design, and how routinely it is used, shows it sits less at the margins than one might assume.KGM, a 20-year-old whose identity remains protected, joined Youtube at eight, Instagram at nine, and by the time she brought her case to Meta and Google, she was describing a childhood that, in her own words, social media had hollowed out.On 25th March, a LA jury ultimately agreed that the platforms bore meaningful responsibility. Meta was found 70 per cent liable, Youtube 30 per cent.The combined damages of $6m may seem like a rounding error for tech titans that, between them, generate hundreds of billions in annual revenue, but a verdict whose implications stretch far further than the cheque.\n\nThe case, the first of what legal experts have expected to become a deluge, rested on how platforms were designed.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNews Updates\nStay ahead with our three daily briefings delivering all the key market moves, top business and political stories, and incisive analysis straight to your inbox.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKGM’s lawyers framed Instagram and Youtube as 「digital casinos」: built with deliberate intent, made to make leaving them feel impossible.「It’s not the content that we have a problem with」, said Princess Uchekwe, corporate attorney and founder of the Chief Counsel. 「It’s the fact that when people use your platform, you have implemented certain features that make it almost impossible for people to leave」.The case prompts the question: where exactly does the line fall between KGM and the rest of us?\n\nIn the spirit of self-examination, we asked our City AM colleagues to share their weekly screen times on various social media platforms.The results, as anticipated, were not an easy read. One colleague logged 10 hours and 39 minutes on TikTok a day on average, another 9 hours and 31 minutes. Another clocked six hours and 51 minutes on Instagram.Of the eight people asked, a third spent more than three hours on Instagram, on top of nearly three hours on Meta-owned WhatsApp.Those numbers fall comfortably within the national average, with British adults reportedly spending around three hours on social media daily, according to the University of California, Davis.\n\nAcross the pond, the American teenager averages five hours, according to analytics firm Gallup. At least four of our colleagues are keeping pace with them.What this means for your brainAnna Lembke, director of addiction medicine at Stanford University and author of Dopamine Nation, has described the smartphone as 「the modern-day hypodermic needle, delivering digital dopamine for a wired generation」.When a notification lands in the form of a like, mention, or follower, the brain’s reward circuitry fires in patterns neuroscientists have compared to those triggered by cocaine.Harvard University research has found that self-disclosure on social platforms activates the same neural regions as addictive substances.\n\nSo the scroll is less mindless than we may think; it is, in a very literal sense, a dopamine delivery mechanism that never runs out.What makes social media particularly pernicious, Lembke adds, is that it has 「druggified」 something we are evolutionarily wired to crave: human connection.Our brains release dopamine when we make social bonds because, for millions of years, those bonds kept us alive.The platforms have simply learned to exploit that wiring at an industrial scale, amplifying the feel-good properties of social interaction while stripping away everything that made it good for us.The result, she writes, is a chronic dopamine-deficit state, where social media feels good when you use it, and has the opposite effect the moment you stop.What classifies as social media ‘addiction’?Whether that experience rises to the clinical threshold of addiction is a more contested question.Social media addiction does not yet appear in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the bible of American psychiatry, and Meta and Youtube’s defence teams were quick to lean on that gap.However, Carl Erik Fisher, addiction psychiatrist and author of ‘The Urge: Our History of Addiction’, argues: 「We kind of get stuck into a binary view, which is both misleading and harmful, where we say, oh, you’re either addicted or you’re perfectly normal. 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