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Palmsy is the new anti-social media app feeding our tech addiction

With artificial likes and follows, Palmsy replicates the dopamine hits we receive from social media whilst protecting our private information. But are these projects doing more harm than good?

Social media dominates nearly every interaction we partake in nowadays. Whether that’s a good or bad thing is still up for debate, but it hasn’t stopped apps from trying to save us from ourselves.

From Calm to OFFTIME, tech companies are finding countless ways to forge ostensibly healthier relationships between us and our phones.

These paradoxical projects have adopted the moniker ‘anti-social social apps’, but perhaps none are as worthy of this name as Palmsy, the latest innovative platform attempting to re-write our relationship with social media.

The concept is simple: users can post texts and photos within Palmsy — to no one. By importing your contacts list, you allow the app to fabricate ‘likes’ from the people you know, even going as far as sending fake push notifications as if these people have interacted with your posts.