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Social media is keeping us stuck in the moment
Reframing the “Social Media” Problem As an Attention Crisis
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Second, these sites push you to switch tasks more frequently than you normally would—to
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
You don’t remember what happened this year
“A life tethered to a phone is a life tethered to a present tense, a stream of insistent notifications (ding!) beckoning the mind back to now. The technology is “fixing us into the absolute present,” [Graham] says.
“It’s like herding creatures off a cliff or gathering humans into a kind of narrow enclosure w
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