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- Many users would ditch social media in exchange for being paid a small fee, a study found.
- Some would also pay for their peers to do the same, it found.
- That makes social media look like a "product market trap," the researchers said.
Would you deactivate your TikTok for four weeks if you were given $59? What about Instagram? Would $47 cut it?
New research published last month by the National Bureau of Economics Research found that social-media users would be willing to break their scrolling habits on these platforms for a month for those amounts.