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Ep. 68: Schadenfacebook

Hidden Brain

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The Fear of Missing Out

Pomo Barbaracan and her team are doing more experiments, but if their findings hold, they say something really sad about our use of social media. The fictional worlds we construct ther can make our friends feel their lives are inadequate. And the fictional worlds our friends construct can make our lives feel duller than they actually are. Maybe you should take a little break from social media and just listen for my stories each week on your local public radio station.

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