Big Smile, No Teeth: Your favourite app is probably manipulating you

We're addicted to our mobile phones. Or more specifically, we’re addicted to our apps.

Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter, these apps are all trying to get us to spend as much time as possible with them. They’re like a clingy boy/girl friend. Using every trick in the book to make sure they soak up all our free time. But unlike the aforementioned clingy relationship, we don’t grow to resent these time-obliterating apps – instead, we want more, more, more.