This is an amazing article, if you get to the heart of it (though be warned, that requires actually reading it).

One of the amazing insights: new information is a drug. It causes a dopamine rush. The influx of all this new information, alerts, everything tugging at us every day is the new legal high, and we're all addicted, with thousands of external entities profiting off the act, dealing out notifications.

I highly recommend reading it fully!