Social Networks Can Curb Addiction WITHOUT Making Their Products Suck

They can help addicted users while leaving the rest of us alone. If they wanted to.

Nir Eyal
4 min readNov 11, 2020

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About five years ago, I sat down in a series of meetings with leaders from Reddit, Snapchat, Facebook, and other social media companies. My goal was to discuss social media addiction and what might be done…

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Nir Eyal

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