From The Atlantic: Loneliness is a serious health threat that is as dangerous as smoking. Social isolation often causes people to have difficulty reaching out and connecting with others, creating a vicious cycle of loneliness.
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(Natural News) If youâre someone who âcanât live withoutâ social media or know someone like that, there is science behind the addiction, and while sinister, most people who canât stop checking Facebook or Google have no idea how they became so hooked.
Itâs a mind technique the social media giants use to make us feel as though we canât live without them, according to a former Google product manager…
âThis thing is a slot machine,â Harris told CBS News in an interview, adding that the tech world would prefer that everyone was kept in the dark about brain hacking.
âEvery time I check my phone, Iâm playing the slot machine to see, âWhat did I get?â This is one way to hijack peopleâs minds and create a habit, to form a habit. What you do is you make it so when someone pulls a lever, sometimes they get a reward, an exciting reward. And it turns out that this design technique can be embedded inside all of these products.â
I was looking for an article explaining how social media is making the loneliness epidemic worse but the above is more interesting. I am tired of seeing people in the praying mantis position arms forward with phones stuck to their face everywhere but that phenomenon is not going away any time soon.
