How Social Media Is Like a Drug, Tech on Young Brains and The Damage of Devices (Digital Dementia)
I recently read a pretty thought-provoking article about how checking Facebook (or other social networks) may be permanently changing the brain, because it offers your brain chemical rewards not unlike those that occur from compulsive drug use. The article is worth a read but pretty long and detailed, so I wanted to summarize a few of the most interesting claims here. First, we get addicted to Facebook because we enjoy “the thrill of the hunt”: “Recent observations indicate that the brain is more…
