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SYSK Choice: Your Brain On the Internet & Embracing Your Weirdness

Something You Should Know

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The Effects of Technology on Our Minds

On those rare occasions when I can get away and turn my phone off, I really like that feeling. The first day is a little anxiety provoking because you feel like you should be connected, but after that, it actually feels really good. There was an interesting study that shows that if you take a person's phone away from them, they'll be in a kind of a state of panic for about three days. But when you give them their phone back, they immediately go back to the kind of compulsive behavior. So this is really becoming entwined with a lot of people's lives in a way that we've never seen with media technology or maybe any technology before.

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