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Developed in the utmost secrecy by the tech industry, social media apps are eating up more and more of our time. 

As a streamer you are your own boss which is great even when you’re not being paid. All hail the gig economy!

An app that disrupts your INNER CLOCK and always makes you feel like you're going even faster.

You spend your evenings looking for bargains on Vinted because the app does everything it can to turn you into a compulsive buyer.

Loops of music activate your neurons and get you to post videos, participate in challenges and try desperately to become an influencer.

Linkedin is a professional social network based on the principle of social comparison that pushes you to compare yourself with your peers.

The convenience of Amazon can make buying on the platform irresistible with every promptly arriving parcel reinforcing the addiction. Your brain is just loving it.

 Here’s how the instant messaging app has taken over your life and made you addicted to your smartphone. All so Facebook can make even higher profits.

Are you spending hours of your day swiping left and right on Tinder? It’s normal as the app was created to be addictive by activating dopamine in your brain with every swipe drawing you in further…

Are you wasting hours on Candy Crush when you really should be working? Appealing to our inner sense of order, the video game that millions play on their smartphones is built to draw you in with some clever sales techniques.

Do you constantly check twitter on your smartphone for the latest tweets? Preying on our fear of missing out (fomo), Twitter has harnessed our natural anxiety to make…. a lot of money.

You’ve made a decision to become an Uber driver hoping to make some money and be your own boss. But with Uber's clever use of nudge theory, the reality isn’t quite what you hoped for.

Snapchat is so much fun you can’t stop yourself from getting addicted. Using the universal concept of giving and receiving gifts to keep us interacting, the messaging app gnaws its way into our lives.

With sophisticated algorithms using deep learning, Youtube offers users irresistible video recommendations that become ever more sensationalist or even conspiratorial.

Is Instagram irresistible for you? The app was made that way to appeal to your basic need for social validation.

Facebook is addictive. Taking advantage of our basic human instinct to socialise, the social network harvests unimaginably large amounts of personal data while never quite fulfilling our thirst for social validation.