Words of Caution - addiction, distraction, loss of productivity, mental health
Norbert strongly recommends to watch Look Up 4/14 and Look Up 2 9/24 ;-)
Social Media are anything but social! & Young people waste their lives scrolling!
Take a deeper dive and watch The Social Dilemma a 2020 docudrama, too.
Listen to Jonathan Haidt in conversation with Prince Harry on smartphones & social media.
Read The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt: TikTok, Meta (Instagram,
Facebook, WhatsApp) & Snapchat are worst when it comes to our kids!
- Video: LOOK UP - brilliant video ! (must see)176826
- Video: LOOK UP 2 - Ten Years Later 9/24 (recommended)489465
- Movie : The SOCIAL DILEMMA (Must Watch)218321
- The Social Dilemma - Wikipedia 221337
- Watch: Truth about tech: how tech has kids hooked - Common Sense Media221441
- Book: The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness 3/24489546
- Podcast: Your undivided attention221453
- @tristanharris221338
- Tristan Harris and Daniel Schmachtenberger - YouTube search441240
- Watch: Tech, governance and the fate of society as we know it - Collision 221519
- How TikTok keeps its users scrolling for hours a day - Washington Post 07.10.25492302
- Little videos are cooking our brains - VOX 10.07.25479802
- Big Tech Is Making Our Children Depressed and Anxious. Here’s How - Novara Media 18.05.25470873
- School phone bans alone do not improve grades or wellbeing, says UK study - Guardian 05.02.25454920
- When news is stressful, how do you balance staying informed with ‘doomscrolling’? - Conversation 28.01.25458293
- Social media rewires young minds – here’s how - Conversation 20.01.25451611
- Tackling digital harms: why simply banning children from social media won’t protect them - BMJ 22.11.24447517
- Australian PM Anthony Albanese wants ban on social media for under 16s - Al Jazeera 07.11.24439473
- Video: Jonathan Haidt sits down with Prince Harry on World Mental Health Day 10/24489545
- The harmful frequency and reach of unhealthy foods on social media - Science Daily 24.10.24440519
- Social media addiction is real - Pressenza 30.06.24420888
- Video: Joe Rogan Experience #1736 - Tristan Harris & Daniel Schmachtenberger - PowerfulJRE 27.06.24441239
- School Smartphone Bans Are Picking Up Steam - Jacobin 25.06.24420458
- Teens Are Fighting Social Media Overuse, Rutgers-New Brunswick Research Finds - Rutgers 13.06.24489553
- Video: Social media negatively affects girls’ mental health - UN News 25.04.24410352
- They have blood on their hands - Pressenza 05.02.24396924
- You have one life. Do you really want to spend it looking at your phone? - Guardian 02.01.24392036
- 41 States Sue Meta Over Features That Keep Kids Addicted to Social Media Platforms - CD 24.10.23379902
- No one knows exactly what social media is doing to teens - Atlantic 13.06.23352425
- The Problem With Comparing Social Media to Big Tobacco - Atlantic 01.06.23349212
- Seven tips for a healthier relationship with your phone - Conversation 12.04.23340831
- Podcast: Too many digital distractions are eroding our ability to read deeply, and here’s how we can become aware of what’s happening - Conversation 30.03.23338424
- Social media is taking a dangerous toll on teenage girls - New Statesman 29.03.23340280
- How to help young people limit screen time — and feel better about how they look - NPR 26.02.23332147
- Video: Incels: how online extremism is changing - Economist 27.10.22313165
- Doomscrolling Scale: its Association with Personality Traits, Psychological Distress, Social Media Use, and Wellbeing - Springer 19.10.22452697
- Video: The Current Thing or: A history of how we ended up in this sorry mess - Medium 16.08.22310063
- Video: The Hidden Cult-Like Techniques of Social Media | Your Undivided Attention - TED Audio Collective 20.07.22441238
- Why Social Media Makes People Unhappy—And Simple Ways to Fix It - Scientific American 20.06.22293339
- The Government Can (and Should) Make Social Media Platforms Safer for Young Users - CD 10.06.22290477
- Video: Doomscrolling - Endless scrolling leading to anxiety, impact on mental health - WION 02.04.22282514
- Social media may affect girls’ mental health earlier than boys’, study finds - Guardian 28.03.22279853
- Instagram, TikTok could get sued for addicting kids under California proposal - Politico 15.03.22277795
- What gambling firms don’t want you to know – and how they keep you hooked - Guardian 12.02.22273409
- Mother sues Meta and Snap over tween daughter’s suicide - Al Jazeera 21.01.22270557
- Your attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen - Guardian 02.01.22269056
- Social media is a bad feelings machine. Why can’t we just turn it off for good? - Guardian 27.12.21266885
- Video: The MOST FRIGHTENING thing about Social Media - Talk Islam 24.12.21282495
- Video: MASS PSYCHOSIS - How an Entire Population Becomes MENTALLY ILL - After Skool 27.08.21256033
- Constant craving: how digital media turned us all into dopamine addicts - Guardian 22.08.21256165
- ‘How can I use this, rather than it use me?’ A new campaign takes aim at screen addiction - Novara Media 06.05.21244225
- Video: DIVIDE & RULE - The Plan of The 1% to Make You DISPOSABLE - After School 16.03.21256032
- Video: Love Your Servitude - Aldous Huxley & George Orwell - After Skol 02.02.21256028
- Video: Why Public Schools and the Mainstream Media Dumb Us Down - Academy of Ideas 27.11.20256029
- Former Google CEO: Social Networks Serving as 'Amplifiers for Idiots and Crazy People' - CD 22.10.20221257
- Ledger of Harms - Center for Humane Technology 11.10.20221462
- EU should regulate Facebook and Google as 'attention utilities' (pdf) - Financial Times 03.01.20 221515
- The Age of Instagram Face - New Yorker 12.12.19207961
- Cyber addiction among rural left-behind kids - Pressreader 15.11.18462156
- Video: The addict in all of us: how smartphones are creating a population of addicts - Academy of Ideas 30.07.18256024
- Introducing “You're All Caught Up” in Feed - Instagram 02.07.18221450
- Google aims to improve ‘Digital Wellbeing’ by reminding users to disconnect on occasion - TNW 08.05.18221445
- You Will Wish You Watched This Before You Started Using Social Media | The Twisted Truth 4/18176827
- ‘Time well spent’ is shaping up to be tech’s next big debate - The Verge 17.01.18221442
- Quit social media | Dr. Cal Newport | TEDxTysons 6/16176828
- What is "brain hacking"? Tech insiders on why you should care - CBS 9.4.17222937
- Watch: How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day - TED 1.4.17222938
- Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong - TED Talks 6/15269054
- Watch: How better tech could protect us from distraction - TED 1.11.14222936
- How social media makes us unsocial | Allison Graham | TEDxSMU 11/14176829
- How social media is affecting teens - YouTube 2/14176830
- It's SO over: cool cyberkids abandon social networking sites - Guardian 8/09176831