Selling the story of disinformation

[Costas]

Every time she logs on to Facebook or YouTube or Twitter, she encounters the toxic byproducts of modernity as fast as her fingers can scroll. She looks out at her fellow citizens and sees them as contaminated

https://harpers.org/archive/2021/09/bad-news-selling-the-story-of-disinformation/

I like to sit on the bus, stare out at the zombies drooling over their phones, and feel smugly superior

https://blog.tjcx.me/p/consume-less-create-more

What makes you feel less bored soon makes you into an addict

http://www.merlinmann.com/better/

End of Social Media

Is Internet Addiction Real ?

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Social Media: A Psychic Cancer

It is a vampiric leech designed to broker access to dopamine, created and maintained by psychology experts in order to manipulate you into scrolling, posting, sharing and to just be angry

https://christine.website/blog/social-media-psychic-cancer-2021-07-29

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Why You Should Delete Social Media: Say Hello to A Better Life!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUQqHYjl2Pk

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Real Time with Bill Maher - Your Phone is Turning You into an Asshole

Apple the company that made it possible for men to show their dicks from thousands of miles away

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz1y37vnThQ

The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops we’ve created are destroying how society works

exFacebook Chamath Palihapitiya
https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/11/16761016/former-facebook-exec-ripping-apart-society

The average high school kid today has the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the early 1950’s

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anxiety-files/200804/how-big-problem-is-anxiety

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2018 - Why protecting privacy is a losing game today

29/08/2021 Facebook Has Trackers in 25% of Websites and 61% of the Most Popular Apps (ref)

20/09/2021 - Reasons to Quit Social Media

Facebook Harms Its Users Because That’s Where Its Profits Are

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Dopamine fasting

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