IT'S TIME FOR A DETOX!

Welcome back to the pod AND welcome back to Daylight Savings! I’m Mike Dreyden Figueroa and this Unscripted and Unrehearsed, where I share my take on events of the day, things that I’ve seen, heard and experienced.

I fell into the trap of constantly checking stats, see how my posts are doing. It started with scheduled posts going live at the wrong time on the wrong day. So now I triple check everything. Which leads to scrolling Social Media! The studies and reports on social media addiction and its effect on our mental health are in, it ain’t good. The good news is I found a way to reclaim my time, my focus and my mental health. This is what I’m doing, but first…

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TOPIC 1: SOCIAL MEDIA ADDICTION PROVED! A 2012 study of college students. Leading addiction experts have said the dopamine cycle initiated by social media use mirrors that seen in drug users. A 2016 study of people suffering from gaming addiction found their neurological responses to gaming cues mirrored those seen in drug addicts experiencing physical cravings. About META internal research. This CNN article from February goes in to some detail. The files raise new questions about what META has known about the risks of its platforms, especially on young people. Diary of a CEO interview with Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt and Harvard physician Dr Aditi Nerurkar. They reveal how tech addiction and short-form video are ROTTING your brain, and why AI chatbots could cause the next global addiction CRISIS!

TOPIC 2: APPS ARE DRAINING ME OF… 

TOPIC 3: TIPS FROM THE EXPERTS…

NOW YOU TELL ME: Are you addicted to your device? Do you think you might be? Do you even care? No judgements.

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