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Show Notes:
0:00 Social media is ruining our lives & mental health
0:20 The problems with social media (social media addiction)
0:30 Social snacking
0:51 Social comparison
1:30 Why social media keeps getting more addicting every year
2:30 Proof that social media causes mental health issues for teenagers
4:20 The BEST way to overcome your social media addiction!
5:47 Another big problem with social media
8:16 Digital minimalism instead of digital detox
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Cal Newport
Cal Newport is an American non-fiction author and associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University. Newport is the author of seven books, including, most recently, “Deep Work,” “Digital Minimalism,” and “A World Without Email.” He earned his Ph.D. in computer science from M.I.T.
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Whether planned or not, Social Media’s prime current function is behavioral engineering at a massive scale. Most sites function as massive Skinner’s Boxes, conditioning users to behaviors desired by those who run the sites. Part of this is inevitable, but it has certainly accelerated in recent years and will continue so long as people continue to rely on such sites.
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Further Reading–
Abnormal White Matter Integrity in Adolescents with Internet Addiction Disorder: A Tract-Based Spatial Statistics Study
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0030253
Phantom vibrations among undergraduates: Prevalence and associated psychological characteristics
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563212000799
Cognitive control in media multitaskers
http://www.pnas.org/content/106/37/15583.abstract?sid=113b39d8-d0b5-4f46-b2a5-362ee79d0b61
Amygdala Volume and Social Network Size in Humans
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3079404/
What is the role of dopamine in reward: hedonic impact, reward
learning, or incentive salience?
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/psych/research&labs/berridge/publications/Berridge&RobinsonBrResRev1998.pdf