The technology addiction trope — BuzzMachine

Jarvis suggesting that the Internet itself isn't addictive (emphasis mine).

Griffiths’ observation speaks to much controversy about the net: it is blamed as the cause of many ills when often it is merely a conduit for them. I emailed Griffiths and asked whether his opinion had changed in the intervening decades of research. He replied with a paper that expressed his current view: “There are also much wider problems with the use of the term ‘internet addiction’: though the number of studies in the field of internet addiction has certainly grown, most have really investigated addictions on the internet rather than to the internet. . . . In short, the overwhelming majority of so-called internet addicts are no more addicted to the internet than alcoholics are addicted to the actual bottle.”

I tend to agree with Jarvis. There are many things enabled by the Internet, but that as a network it is itself without addictiveness. Similar to gambling, the room of a casino is not addictive but the games in it are. Is social media addictive? I believe yes. Is an online poker app? Very much so! Is the Internet, I don't know that it can be. Is your phone? Hmmm… I’m not sure.