I can definitely recognize in friends and family, the "deep end" of consumption. Hours upon hours on Facebook or YouTube, consumed entirely in the most mind-numbing scroll fests until they snap out of it and do something else. Hours are lost. But I also notice that they have all, on their own account, decided that it's an issue and then worked to stop it once they figured it out.

It's not clear to a new user that something as simple as a website could become addictive and begin to take huge amounts of time, concentration and patience away from you. Or even that it could be a bad thing. It seems to catch even disciplined people off guard. But I have noticed that they often self-regulate eventually anyway.

There does seem to be a certain desire to be productive in many people, and so I'm not particularly worried about an entire society totally consumed by social media/entertainment.