Comment by dleeftink
> lots of people
Depends, as all things. See for instance the Twitter (increased engagement) study [0] or the more recent Facebook study (little effect) [1]. For more recent investigations on user perceptions see [2] and [3].
[0]: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01972243.2023.2...
[1]: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp9364
[2]: https://jsb.journals.ekb.eg/index.php/FAQ/journal/journal/ar...