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Social media is keeping us stuck in the moment
Social media doesn’t let us actually absorb the information we consume. We’re blasted with low-context content and given no time to reflect on what we’ve just consumed before the next video starts to play. Functionally, it’s the same as junk food – we absorb the message straight into our psyche without vetting it, contextualizing it or reflecting... See more
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
People were, he warned, living “on a treadmill of continuous checking.”