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Jenny Odell on attention, where we put it, and how it can polarise society

The Sacred

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Is Social Media a Part of the Solution?

"With rooted roots deep into something, we can't sustain it," she says. "I really believe in a sort of a feedback loops seem to be a very big thing in biology, but also in culture." The more you use social media, the stronger your neural pathways become and then that feeds back into other people's online behavior. We should all try to live between these spaces as if they were our own private playgrounds, writes CNN Opinion editor-in-chief John Sutter.

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