app addiction
Digital compulsion syndrome
App addiction describes compulsive, excessive use of smartphone or tablet applications, particularly social media, games, or entertainment apps.
The term borrows from addiction's clinical sense but usually describes habitual behavior rather than physiological dependence: I deleted Instagram to break my app addiction.
Features like infinite scroll, notifications, and variable rewards are designed to foster app addiction.
- scrollingMoving display content vertically
- dopamineReward-linked neural messenger
- screenDisplay or barrier
- screen timeDuration on digital displays
- notificationFormal notice given
push notifications · compulsive · withdrawal · FOMO · social media · binge · mindless · thumb · blue light · refresh · infinite scroll · doom loop · craving · distraction · attention span · detox · habit · brain rot
- digital wellnessgaming disorder, digital detox, screen time, technostress, notification anxiety
- technophiliatechnomania, early adopter, unboxing, tinkering
app addictionself-control
Ability to restrain impulses
moderation · self-regulation · impulse control · willpower · restraint
addiction, addictions, addictive, addict, addicts, addicted, addicting, application, applications