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Social media doesn’t affect your emotional life, study finds

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A study just out from researchers at Durham University in the UK has found that reducing social media use doesn’t have much of an effect on people’s emotional life one way or another. Hard to believe? Let’s put this new finding into context.

Paper here: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0293467

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What Science Says About Quitting Social Media

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I recently learned there’s a new trend on social media: monk mode. It means cutting out distractions and going into self-isolation to become more productive. It’s supposedly based on science and particularly concerned with avoiding social media, because that’s addictive. But can social media really be addictive? Does the monk mode work? And what’s the science behind it? In this video, we’ll sort it out.

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00:00 Intro
00:41 What Is Monk Mode?
03:18 What Is A Dopamine Addiction?
05:51 How Does Dopamine Work?
10:00 Can You Get Addicted to Social Media?
13:37 Summary
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Fake News, Echo Chambers & Polarization: How Bad Is Social Media?

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Does fake news spread better than true news? Do bots spread fake news? What can we do against fake news? Does social media increase political polarization? Is it true that we all live in political echo chambers? In this video, we look at what scientific studies have found and what we can learn from that.

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00:00 Intro
01:30 Fake News
09:38 Information Literature
10:16 Echo Chambers
13:15 Polarization
16:38 Summary
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