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Studies Show Adults Are Addicted to Social Media in a Vicious Cycle with 8 Ways to Help Each Other…
Remember, breaking a phone addiction isn’t easy. Be gentle with yourself. Understand that when you stare into your phone 10,000 programmers’ eyes are staring back at you, monitoring your move, adapting the on-screen environment so that you’ll keep looking and scrolling. Let’s make 2021 the year when we stopped doing that mindlessly. Let’s take back control of our country, our time, and our minds. Paul Greenberg: Goodbye Phone, Hello World
Happy Birthday to Facebook, a sweet 15 years old.
What has this rambunctious child done in growing up? Whatever will it do as a head-strong teenager growing into a mature adult? Has it fostered a cell phone addiction along with other social media platforms that is now catching the world by surprise? Are adults trapped in a vicious cycle of digital addiction and do we require deprogramming for normalcy of communication and society’s values?
I have always considered the internet as a vast social technological experiment that now, after a couple decades, is assessing and remedying results where necessary. A 70% growth in the number of people who use Social Media platforms only increase concerns about day-to-day lives and psychological well being.
