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Jesus, that's scary. Most of my friend group doesn't use social media.
Honestly the only thing I think you could do would be to talk to them honestly about it, and say their behavior concerns you, maybe ask them to put their phones away in your company.
do you still connect with them, its what op was trying to say. If you form 1 or2, thats much better than not having any.
make sense why tiktok is being bought out by ellison, under 30 are morely likely to be on tiktok for long periods of time and will consume the propaganda quite readily and are quite easy to sway to voting for R, eventhough they dont know thier immediate consequences of doing so. and most of them wont be able to tell difference between something completely digitially created and one created by a person. they might not be able to tell the difference, when i see it , its often it so unnatural even if they make ir REAL life like.
Yeah I've talked with them about it but it's really the dopamine being hijacked is the issue from the content. I know there's a thing where people lose interest in "normal" when they get used to more and more wild of a thing, like porn fetishes. I'm sure there's things that have helped reset that mental rush, like with the example about the fetishes, those said people having actual sex to reset to being more normal (don't take literal I'm being very general since I don't study this). I'm pretty scared of the "create your game" AI engines that will inevitably coming for this reason cause it will make exactly what your want to always want it and then hook the user to never wanting to disconnect from the game. My friends though aren't cut out for stuff like paintball so laser tag seemed as one of those good out of norm medians that's not physical but out of the house
thats pretty much porn addiction, they escalate into more and more kinks, after they get bored of the normal ones, and plus they maybe consuming it more than 1hr per day. and in some forums i have been some of them reported they cant even get "hard" or aroused anymore due to desensitization some try to fix it by going cold turkey, and it work for some people but most people just fall back into it eventually. with porn theres a eurphoria feeling with masturbation, so theres that REAL high as well. the only thing that matches that in euphoria is scratching an eczema rash(thats already been itching irritated for a while)
It is actual addiction. It might not be as damaging as an opioid addiction but it’s still addiction. They have to recognize and acknowledge the addiction and want to change before any change can happen.
There’s a two recent Hidden Brain podcast episodes that explain how dopamine rewards turn into addiction. I highly recommend them. It will explain a lot about what’s happening to your friends—though, sounds like you have much of it figured out. I plan on reading the psychiatrist’s book.
Hidden Brain Podcast: