Brilliant!!
Exactly the detailed reply I was looking for when I posted my observations. The last paragraph says it all, "Fundamentally, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and the rest of the Horsemen do not improve your life. Anyone with a little bit of smarts figures that out eventually. There's a period, though, where the design does what it's intended: hook you on wasting time for someone else's profit." Now this brings me to another question that I am curious to ask at this point. Like the way these corporations have found a way to profit on how much time we waste, is there a way through which this can be reversed and made profit out of. A lot of people are realising today that the point you stated is the reality but the rate is very low as compared to people embracing this technology in their life. Leave profit, is there a way to reverse this, without actually messing up on with the "free will" and "choices" of the people which they get very very touchy about?
Humans are adaptable. That's why it's an acute, rather than chronic problem: the "high" of engagement with social media is habituated and provides fewer endorphins the longer you use it. Most people, unless they're suffering an imbalance, eventually reach the point where the world around them provides more engagement than their phones and it ceases to be a problem. But yes, there are paid apps to reclaim the life the rest of your apps are stealing. Wherever there is a need, there is an entrepreneur attempting to strike it rich.
I guess it's just the wait then. Can't force someone out of it for sure, just wanting to save them the pain of that small little bubble bursting that Social Media is actually a "Virtual" world where we have the possibility of losing ourselves. Thanks for your inputs.