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I miss living without the expectation of always being available. I miss the cozy quality of light in a room devoid of glowing screens.
After each strategy shift at Medium, partner publishers have said they felt the rug being pulled out from under their feet, with no notice.
In the past, you just let kids talk. But everyone's listening now.
There was a time when a man would have wait weeks for a rejection to come by mail. Now the Internet delivers big, concentrated blobs of disappointment. With the click of a mouse.
I remember what it was like before social media and it was kind of boring.
What does justice look like for a survivor? It’ll mean different things to different communities.
What about the person whose family didn’t know until they saw it on social media? What if for a survivor social media is your self-care and you’re bombarded with all these posts? It’s really complicated.
Is television's main purpose to transmit facts?
Somebody will call me and ask me to come to a march because such and such got shot. In that situation I want to know what really happened. I’m not going to jump up and go march just because I’m green and the person who got shot is green. The rush to get mad doesn’t make sense to me.
What was earlier inviolably intimate or totally inaccessible is often now on total public display.
We’re not just attached, we’re addicted.
There's a reason that teenagers in particular are prone to the feverish pursuit of valuation via social media. Prinstein says it's because the wide variety of regions in the brain that seek and deliver social rewards, including the part of the striatum called the nucleus accumbens, become supercharg…
Social media is like kerosene poured on the flame of social comparison, dramatically increasing the information about people that we're exposed to and forcing our minds to assess.
People are most likely to share peak experiences and flattering news about themselves—what University of Houston psychologist Mai-Ly Nguyen Steers calls "everyone else's highlights reel"—and tech companies, furthermore, use algorithms to prioritize that very information in social media feeds. The na…
Smartphones have been around, in their current form, for about 10 years. Humankind is 200,000 years old,” Greenfield says. “Is it possible that we’ve distorted how important this technology is to our lives?
Dr. David Ballard, head of the American Psychological Association’s Center for Organizational Excellence, agrees it’s healthy to unplug—but adds that everyone detoxes differently. Some people prefer to power down completely during their time off, while others feel less stressed if they allow themsel…
There’s a lot of medical evidence to suggest that we live in a hyper-elevated state of arousal and activated stress hormones due to being so accessible and ever-vigilant for electronic input.
There’s a lot of medical evidence to suggest that we live in a hyper-elevated state of arousal and activated stress hormones due to being so accessible and ever-vigilant for electronic input.
The younger generation is growing up at an exciting yet terrifying time: a time when connections can be made instantaneously, yet meaningful connections are becoming harder and harder to find.