Words of Caution - addiction, distraction, loss of productivity, mental health

Words of Caution explores smartphone addiction, distraction, productivity loss, and mental health. Discover insights from The Social Dilemma and more.

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!

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• 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 Media 221441
• Book: The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness 3/24 489546
• Podcast: Your undivided attention 221453
• @tristanharris 221338
• Tristan Harris and Daniel Schmachtenberger - YouTube search 441240
• Watch: Tech, governance and the fate of society as we know it - Collision 221519
• Social media can be addictive even for adults, but there are ways to cut back - AP News 21.02.26 509694
• Video: “Predatory Tech”: Silicon Valley on Trial in Landmark Youth Social Media Addiction Case - DN! 19.02.26 509883
• Zuckerberg defends Meta in landmark social media addiction trial - BBC 18.02.26 509128
• Is social media addictive? How it keeps you clicking and the harms it can cause - Conversation 16.02.26 510094
• Musk labels Spain PM ‘tyrant’ after Madrid proposes social media curbs - Al Jazeera 04.02.26 508522
• A Social-Media Ban Really Could Do a Lot of Good - Atlantic 02.02.26 508087
• More than 100,000 people urge MPs to ban social media for under-16s in UK - Guardian 15.01.26 505768
• New York to require social media platforms to display mental health labels - Al Jazeera 26.12.25 502462
• Australia’s social media ban has given us a way to fight big tech – and get my son back on his skateboard - Guardian 13.12.25 501220
• Exposed: the business linked to baby deaths across the world - The Latest 12.12.25 501106
• Cartoon: Ben Jennings on Australia’s social media ban for under-16s - Guardian 09.12.25 500733
• How short-form videos could be harming young minds - Conversation 09.12.25 501535
• Social media, not gaming, tied to rising attention problems in teens, new study finds - Conversation 08.12.25 501080
• Social media use damages children’s ability to focus, say researchers - Guardian 08.12.25 500644
• Australia to enforce social media age limit of 16 next week with fines up to $33 million - AP News 03.12.25 500120
• A short social media detox improves mental health, a study shows. Here's how to do it - NPR 02.12.25 500209
• Malaysia says it will ban social media for under-16s from next year - Al Jazeera 24.11.25 499003
• How TikTok keeps its users scrolling for hours a day - Washington Post 07.10.25 492302
• Little videos are cooking our brains - VOX 10.07.25 479802
• Big Tech Is Making Our Children Depressed and Anxious. Here’s How - Novara Media 18.05.25 470873
• School phone bans alone do not improve grades or wellbeing, says UK study - Guardian 05.02.25 454920
• When news is stressful, how do you balance staying informed with ‘doomscrolling’? - Conversation 28.01.25 458293
• Social media rewires young minds – here’s how - Conversation 20.01.25 451611
• Tackling digital harms: why simply banning children from social media won’t protect them - BMJ 22.11.24 447517
• Australian PM Anthony Albanese wants ban on social media for under 16s - Al Jazeera 07.11.24 439473
• Video: Jonathan Haidt sits down with Prince Harry on World Mental Health Day 10/24 489545
• The harmful frequency and reach of unhealthy foods on social media - Science Daily 24.10.24 440519
• Social media addiction is real - Pressenza 30.06.24 420888
• Video: Joe Rogan Experience #1736 - Tristan Harris & Daniel Schmachtenberger - PowerfulJRE 27.06.24 441239
• School Smartphone Bans Are Picking Up Steam - Jacobin 25.06.24 420458
• Teens Are Fighting Social Media Overuse, Rutgers-New Brunswick Research Finds - Rutgers 13.06.24 489553
• Video: Social media negatively affects girls’ mental health - UN News 25.04.24 410352
• They have blood on their hands - Pressenza 05.02.24 396924
• You have one life. Do you really want to spend it looking at your phone? - Guardian 02.01.24 392036
• 41 States Sue Meta Over Features That Keep Kids Addicted to Social Media Platforms - CD 24.10.23 379902
• No one knows exactly what social media is doing to teens - Atlantic 13.06.23 352425
• The Problem With Comparing Social Media to Big Tobacco - Atlantic 01.06.23 349212
• Seven tips for a healthier relationship with your phone - Conversation 12.04.23 340831
• 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 30.03.23 338424
• Social media is taking a dangerous toll on teenage girls - New Statesman 29.03.23 340280
• How to help young people limit screen time — and feel better about how they look - NPR 26.02.23 332147
• Video: Incels: how online extremism is changing - Economist 27.10.22 313165
• Doomscrolling Scale: its Association with Personality Traits, Psychological Distress, Social Media Use, and Wellbeing - Springer 19.10.22 452697
• Video: The Current Thing or: A history of how we ended up in this sorry mess - Medium 16.08.22 310063
• Video: The Hidden Cult-Like Techniques of Social Media | Your Undivided Attention - TED Audio Collective 20.07.22 441238
• Why Social Media Makes People Unhappy—And Simple Ways to Fix It - Scientific American 20.06.22 293339
• The Government Can (and Should) Make Social Media Platforms Safer for Young Users - CD 10.06.22 290477
• Video: Doomscrolling - Endless scrolling leading to anxiety, impact on mental health - WION 02.04.22 282514
• Social media may affect girls’ mental health earlier than boys’, study finds - Guardian 28.03.22 279853
• Instagram, TikTok could get sued for addicting kids under California proposal - Politico 15.03.22 277795
• What gambling firms don’t want you to know – and how they keep you hooked - Guardian 12.02.22 273409
• Mother sues Meta and Snap over tween daughter’s suicide - Al Jazeera 21.01.22 270557
• Your attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen - Guardian 02.01.22 269056
• Social media is a bad feelings machine. Why can’t we just turn it off for good? - Guardian 27.12.21 266885
• Video: The MOST FRIGHTENING thing about Social Media - Talk Islam 24.12.21 282495
• Video: MASS PSYCHOSIS - How an Entire Population Becomes MENTALLY ILL - After Skool 27.08.21 256033
• Constant craving: how digital media turned us all into dopamine addicts - Guardian 22.08.21 256165
• ‘How can I use this, rather than it use me?’ A new campaign takes aim at screen addiction - Novara Media 06.05.21 244225
• Video: DIVIDE & RULE - The Plan of The 1% to Make You DISPOSABLE - After School 16.03.21 256032
• Video: Love Your Servitude - Aldous Huxley & George Orwell - After Skol 02.02.21 256028
• Video: Why Public Schools and the Mainstream Media Dumb Us Down - Academy of Ideas 27.11.20 256029
• Former Google CEO: Social Networks Serving as 'Amplifiers for Idiots and Crazy People' - CD 22.10.20 221257
• Ledger of Harms - Center for Humane Technology 11.10.20 221462
• EU should regulate Facebook and Google as 'attention utilities' (pdf) - Financial Times 03.01.20 221515
• The Age of Instagram Face - New Yorker 12.12.19 207961
• Cyber addiction among rural left-behind kids - Pressreader 15.11.18 462156
• Video: The addict in all of us: how smartphones are creating a population of addicts - Academy of Ideas 30.07.18 256024
• Introducing “You're All Caught Up” in Feed - Instagram 02.07.18 221450
• Google aims to improve ‘Digital Wellbeing’ by reminding users to disconnect on occasion - TNW 08.05.18 221445
• You Will Wish You Watched This Before You Started Using Social Media | The Twisted Truth 4/18 176827
• ‘Time well spent’ is shaping up to be tech’s next big debate - The Verge 17.01.18 221442
• Quit social media | Dr. Cal Newport | TEDxTysons 6/16 176828
• What is "brain hacking"? Tech insiders on why you should care - CBS 9.4.17 222937
• Watch: How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day - TED 1.4.17 222938
• Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong - TED Talks 6/15 269054
• Watch: How better tech could protect us from distraction - TED 1.11.14 222936
• How social media makes us unsocial | Allison Graham | TEDxSMU 11/14 176829
• How social media is affecting teens - YouTube 2/14 176830
• It's SO over: cool cyberkids abandon social networking sites - Guardian 8/09 176831

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