How Social Media Shortens Your Life

The urge to check Twitter or refresh Reddit becomes a nervous twitch that shatters uninterrupted time into shards too small to support the presence necessary for an intentional life.

Cal Newport • Digital Minimalism

This creates problems of its own. Continually dividing your attention between two worlds means you can never fully settle in either, creating constant anxiety and stress. And when attention is constantly switching between concurrent tasks, it imposes a “switch-cost effect” that can make people lose track of time. Thus, by constantly interrupting... See more

How Social Media Shortens Your Life

Digital detox too extreme? How about trying a gentle “hack” to boost your focus and calm your mind?

In Stolen Focus, Johann Hari talks about how social media/entertainment acts like goggles, altering how we see the world. Each platform makes us perceive life differently:

-Facebook Goggles: You see life through nostalgia, filtered perfection, and