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The Effects of Social Media on Human Behavior
It all depends on how you use it. For most people, social media is designed to hook you in and captivate you for hours on end. It gives you the short term dopamine release, joy, feeling of pleasure, while long term making you more anxious and more worried. So it's up to you, it's your choice. Make your own policy of how much time you will spend on the internet, especially in social media. Internet is fine. You can use the internet for doing research, for studying, for discovering things, for a lot of good work. AI could become super intelligent, way more powerful and capable than human beings are. That could happen, but it may
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