Addicted is right.
#sentfrommyiphone
This was considered a respectable way of telling people to not disturb you only a while back.
I don't know what we should do about it though. Like any cure would be to authoritarian for my taste. Hope for culture change? Like how fronting the TV as the center of your family life at home is not hip anymore.
That doesn’t seem like the default for most things in the universe.
I for example am burned out on scrolling feeds since I consumed way too much memes on like some meme rating feed site I don't even remember the name of, before feeds was a thing.
So maybe people might just cut down on it by them self?
I remember much talk of "internet addiction" in the late 1990s, but rarely hear much of it anymore
You'd have to have some non abstract damage to write simple articles. Otherwise the journalist need to do a deep dive in the victim's life to explain the damage.