- Tools like Digital Wellbeing or Instagram’s Take a Break are built to interrupt addictive use cycles.
- In an ongoing Meta trial, a former data scientist shares just how few teens actually took advantage of the company’s tools.
- With teen accounts, Take a Break is now on by default, hopefully pushing numbers up a little.
Are smartphones our best friends, or our worst enemies? Sometimes it feels like half the work companies are putting into new features are attempts to fix our addiction to others, like with the new Pause Point on Pixel 11 devices — or really anything Digital Wellbeing, for that matter. And while we seem to keep getting more and more new tools meant to save us from ourselves, are the most vulnerable people even using them? According to Meta, maybe not so much.
Meta’s currently being sued by 29 states over claims of safety and privacy issues impacting its youngest users, and Bloomberg is sharing some of the details just revealed by a former Meta data scientist’s testimony.
