We are in it. People will claim “I’m a news junkie!” or that they’re the biggest fan of this and that. I’m a whale for that game, etc.
People are addicted to notifications to death. Every single time I talk to a friend about that notification life (I turned them all off in 2011), they wince instantly. They explain to me how terrible it is and how they’re stuck in it. Especially with dating apps (I’m not on them at all).
It is wild to see grown folks struggle with mental gymnastics they’re imposing to themselves.
There’s also this “I Deserve” culture of having a service do what you should be doing. For instance, people use services that help them manage web links. People feel the need to pay for an app that “saves” an article for reading later.
Bro, your computer is an insanely great note/bookmark tool, do it yourself? Paste that shit into your notes and call it a day, what the hell? Organize your stuff? Oh, you can afford that service, sure. There’s this “there’s an app market, I must use it otherwise I’m not doing it right” undertone to the smartphone life that is so, so weird because people also understand the privacy issues yet, give up on them all the time. Hence why corporations think that we are dumb fucks.
They might have a point. A bit sad innit.