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Sure, I guess the addictive features of your relationship could also be a useful thing to notice, if you feel like you're overly attached (in a way that's bad for you overall) We just tend to use "hacked" about systems that are more professionally engineered for addiction
It'd be very weird to explain compulsive clingy behavior with one's boyfriend without a word about how he makes them feel or what they like about him. One *could* talk about it solely at the level of dopamine & oxytocin, but it looks silly & delivers much less useful information
Perhaps the reason for the framing is to shift the responsibility? I see a lot of blaming of Twitter, FB, etc for UX "dark patterns" that keep you engaged to boost business metrics. OTOH, you wouldn't blame your boyfriend for being irresistible (or maybe you would, idk 
).
Yes — I'm not saying Twitter *isn't* optimizing for user engagement, but it's silly to have this convo as though Twitter is a contentless dopamine drip. Why do we enjoy 
s from strangers? How do we get caught up in rage-bait? "Because our brains are hacked" isn't very helpful.
it sounds like the question here is whether or not the technological delivery of pleasure can be understood separately from the deeper significance of the pleasure being provided, right?
It would also be a bunch of bs because what do we really know about what neurotransmitters do.
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Too many bad takes built on reductive ideas about why people do what they do, especially online — less, I think, because they have useful explanatory power, and more because they allow people to skip entirely the layer containing desires they don’t endorse or fully understand
