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Randall denies having a {{w|social media addiction}}. However, he concludes that he must have some problem, as he opens his social media / news apps many times a day. He tries to remedy this addiction by rearranging the icons on his phone’s app launcher. Specifically, he swaps the app icon with that of an eBook reader, so opening the "social media app" would lead to the eBook reader, and vice versa. In this case, when he swaps a social media/news app with his {{w|E-book}} reading app, he ends up reading more books (as shown by the graph) because he is used to having his media app in its place, and is opening it up through {{w|muscle memory}}. | Randall denies having a {{w|social media addiction}}. However, he concludes that he must have some problem, as he opens his social media / news apps many times a day. He tries to remedy this addiction by rearranging the icons on his phone’s app launcher. Specifically, he swaps the app icon with that of an eBook reader, so opening the "social media app" would lead to the eBook reader, and vice versa. In this case, when he swaps a social media/news app with his {{w|E-book}} reading app, he ends up reading more books (as shown by the graph) because he is used to having his media app in its place, and is opening it up through {{w|muscle memory}}. | ||
| − | This results in the punch line, where he says that this causes him to read "a half-dozen" books before his | + | This results in the punch line, where he says that this causes him to read "a half-dozen" books before realizing his problem and not opening his reader as often. This seems to point to his addiction being less to social media specifically and more to a flow of new information; a collection of eBooks offers him that input (hence the abundance of books he reads), but when his collection runs dry, he gravitates back to news and social media apps. As shown in the graph, he later switches the icons back, or swaps the eBook reader icon with a different icon, causing another spike in his reading habits; presumably, he changes the icons again when he has rebuilt a collection of unread eBooks, thus giving him more new information. |
Alternatively, Randall does not realize that he is reading books instead of a social media feed, and often gets through many books before realizing. | Alternatively, Randall does not realize that he is reading books instead of a social media feed, and often gets through many books before realizing. | ||
