Smartphone addiction: users tell their stories (feed article)
“We would just sit there in silence, scrolling away.” Image credits: Lijuxx Smartphone addiction, the monetisation and sale of our most private moments, the isolation that comes with digital ‘connection’, selling votes by renting out minds… Now suddenly it’s not just the Luddites who are worried about our relationship with technology. And Big Tech is reeling, for the first time coming under the kind of pressure that the tobacco industry experienced in the 1990s. Their response is