Social Media Pioneers Now Regret Their All-Consuming Technological Creations

Participant hold their laptops in front of an illuminated wall at the annual Chaos Computer Club (CCC) computer hackers' congress. Photo by Patrick Lux/Getty Images

Social media innovators are shutting off addictive internet social media technologies.

Mostly in their 30s, they created the technology that is taken for granted on computer and mobile device screens across the world. From the like button to the pulldown refresh, these tech whizzes are shutting themselves off from habit-forming technologies that they brought to the world.