By Judson Brewer — 2019
Why we get hooked and what we can do to break the habit.
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While addiction may make one think of hard drugs or alcohol, activities like video games, social media apps, and sites like YouTube can also become unhealthy addictions.
I’m not sure we should be so quick to give up on interrogating the necessity of these technologies in our lives, especially when they impact the well-being of our children.
Nobody’s proven that digital addiction rots your brain.
Why it feels like everything is going haywire? Even if social media could be cured of its outrage-enhancing effects, it would still raise problems for the stability of democracy.