I believe there is merit to this, @HODL, so for fun I went to see what data there is. I found:
In 2012, Wilhelm Hofmann of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and his team studied 205 adults (19-35y/o) in Germany who carried Blackberrys that pinged them 7 times daily for a week (10,558 total responses). They reported any desires in the past 30 minutes, their strength, whether they resisted, and conflicts with other goals. This captured 7,827 "desire episodes" in natural settings (not a lab).
They found that desires for media use (checking social media like Twitter, email, news) had the highest self-control failure rates—people gave in more often than to desires for alcohol or cigarettes. Alcohol and cigarettes had lower reported desire strength and higher resistance rates, partly because they carry clear long-term costs (health, money) and aren't always available. (1/6)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/feb/03/twitter-resist-cigarettes-alcohol-study
quotingI have no data to back this but I feel like twitter is as bad for your health as alcohol
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