Category: Addiction
Social Media Notifications, Compulsive Phone Checking and Why We’re Addicted to Our Phones
Social media notifications can make compulsive phone checking surprisingly hard to resist. Messages, alerts and unpredictable rewards can keep us checking our phones, even when we intended to look only once. The result is phone addiction. But why do unpredictable notifications keep us checking our phones? We do this even when most notifications lead to…