How Instagram Is Designed To Get You To Use It Compulsively

Eduardo Morales
An Injustice!
Published in
14 min readMay 23, 2022

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Have you noticed that you can’t quite keep your Instagram use in check lately? Do you find yourself automatically reaching for your phone and mindlessly scrolling through the app even when you don’t really want to? Are you hard on yourself because you can’t seem to be able to not use Instagram, even though you know it doesn’t make you feel good?

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