The excessive use of new technologies has raised concerns among doctors and therapists, who point to screen addiction, social media use, and internet browsing as the culprits.

Among the consequences of digital addiction are the loss of control over the time people spend using technology, as well as the accumulation of stress from prolonged browsing and above-average news consumption, which generates “irritability, anxiety, and difficulty enjoying life outside the screen.”

Regarding AI, the consequences are identified as “emotional dependence on conversational chatbots, image or content generators, and applications based on LLMs (large language models), as well as the excessive use of virtual assistants in daily life.”

According to the organization Internet and Technology Addicts Anonymous (ITAA), “any digital activity can turn into compulsive and problematic behavior,” which is why they have created a support group to help people recover from internet addiction, mobile phone addiction, video game console addiction, online shopping addiction, and dating app addiction. ITAA has been inspired by the methodology of the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous to address these issues.

Another example of helpful initiatives is a community on platforms like Reddit, “where users share their experiences with compulsive use of AI chatbots, automated messaging apps, and video games” through the r/characterairecovery community, which serves as a refuge for users seeking to reduce their compulsive use of Character.AI and other similar systems.

This group has approximately 900 members who share their frustrations and success stories to help others.

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France long stated its position in favor of banning children under 15 from using social media, in addition to requiring platforms like X, Reddit, and Mastodon to provide age verification.

This week, the president of the European nation, Emmanuel Macron, insisted that the European Union move quickly on a decision on the issue to protect children from sensitive content.

Greece appears to have initiated the proposal, now followed by Spain and France. In the latter, the government already requires certain controls regarding social media use by children under 15.

Macron has called for a swift decision in the region regarding measures such as limiting the time young people spend online and the content they can access, as well as the actions they could take online, such as online purchases, which could even pose a danger to users and third parties.

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An increasing number of users have expressed their disapproval of YouTube ads, which, according to some, has included up to ten of them consecutively and without giving the option to skip them.

Ad breaks usually appear on the video platform just before a content starts, although the creator also has the option to include an ad at the time of the same that they consider appropriate.

However, more and more users are turning to platforms like Twitter and Reddit to make their discontent with the situation clear, especially in the last two months. In recent weeks, they point out that the platform’s ads have grown in number and duration. They also criticize the alleged increase in the amount of advertising that cannot be skipped by the user.

The most extreme cases recorded show clusters of up to ten consecutive announcements. None of them giving the user the option to go directly to play the video.

YouTube has not commented on it. The platform’s only allusion to this problem was on Twitter. There, his team’s account acknowledged the existence of “bump erads” after a user’s complaint.

This advertising format is characterized, according to YouTube, by showing several consecutive ads at the beginning of a video and lasting approximately six seconds. And it does not allow the user to skip them.

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Reddit is developing a project that aims to recognize NFTs within its platform; that is, establish NFTs as profile images and verify their possession, following in the footsteps of the instant messaging social network Twitter.

The project is in its initial phase for which many details are not known. However, the website has confirmed that it is “working to implement any NFT as a profile picture, be it from the ethereum, solana or other network.”

The possibility that the company starts with its own NFTs and thus be able to reward their beneficiaries is also being handled.

Reddit is currently not offering its NFT implementation system to users, as it would be reserved for internal developer testing. The expectations are that the system works in a similar way to that of Twitter, linked to “a wallet and recognizing the ownership of the asset.”

The forum would also provide NTF information to non-possessing users such as its rarity, the network on which it is hosted or its protocol of use.

NFT collection on Reddit

Reddit already has a first experience with NTFs, during 2021 the website launched its “limited NFT collection called CryptoSnoos”, honoring its iconic mascot Snoo. The collection established different models of Snoo characterized by a “genome system such as common, rare or legendary”. This collection was made through the Ethereum network.

It is estimated that the implementation of the NFTs on Reddit will be a matter of time because with the broadcast of its collection the interest in them was evidenced.

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The audiovisual streaming platform Netflix has begun to launch support for the spatial audio function among users of iPhone and iPad devices with high-end Apple headphones.

Apple introduced spatial audio for users of its Apple Music service last May. With support for Dolby Atmos, this feature creates an immersive experience that gives the user the impression that the sound is coming from around them and above them.

A Netflix spokesperson has confirmed that the application has begun to launch spatial audio among its iPhone and iPad users with iOS 14 and later versions of the operating system.

To activate spatial audio, Netflix users on Apple mobiles must access the application’s control center, from where it is possible to enable the function.

This feature is exclusive to the AirPods Pro and Max, the latest high-end wireless headphones from the US brand (‘true wireless’ headband, respectively).

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The Reddit platform changed its interface in the iOS application in order to give more opportunity to the content in of short duration, similar to those of TikTok, joining the trend imposed by that social network, although it continues to focus, in text posts and community-fed content threads.

There is no doubt about the importance and distinction that he is now giving to videos that aspire to be a bit like those of TikTok. These changes have been implemented since they acquired Dubsmash, which has this type of content as its primary focus.

The history of the relationship between Reddit and TikTok has its own peculiar characteristics. At the beginning of 2020, the CEO of Reddit, Steve Huffman, harshly questioned the social network of microvideos, coming to consider it a “parasitic spyware” app. However, that same year he acquired the company “Dubsmash, which is essentially a clone of TikTok.”

Among the current characteristics of the platform is that its operating system, users can view, next to the search bar, a button with which they can open different videos in short format, they can also slide up and see a new video and additionally they have the possibility to share the contents.

However, the most attractive feature of the Reddit social network will continue to be the ability to “vote for or against content.” In addition, you can go directly to the subreddit in which it was published.

This functionality is quite interesting and although it does not guarantee the addition of new users or followers, at least you can keep the current ones.

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An error in the distribution network (CDN) of the Fastly server caused the fall of many web pages around the world this Tuesday, including media such as the New York Times, The Guardian, CNN, AS or La Sexta, and networks social networks like Twitch or Reddit.

When trying to access the pages, users reported the appearance of a message stating ‘Error 503 Service Unavailable’ when they tried to access media and social platforms.

The official website of the United Kingdom Government has also been affected, as well as Amazon, eBay or Spotify. Many websites cannot be viewed yet, but some media such as New York Times and La Sexta are already available.

On its Status page, Fastly indicated at noon that it was investigating a “potential impact on the performance of its CDN services”, although in the morning it reported that it had identified the fault, which it has not detailed, and implemented a correction.

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