This chapter discusses the negative impact of social media on our brain health and well-being, highlighting how it is not truly social and prioritizes keeping users online for profit. It explores the exploitation of our in-group out-group mentality and suggests the need for government intervention and smartphone bans in schools.
It's human nature to form groups — families, friends, online communities. We love to be surrounded by people similar to us.
But that can also make us discriminatory and defensive. And social media makes that instinct worse.
In this episode, we look at how our brains evolved to connect and divide, and what that means for the problems we face in our modern world.