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November 4, 2019 - Hammondsport Mac Users Group ATTENDING : Tom B, John M, Bill M, Russ C, Judy C and Gene N. TOPIC : ADDICTION TO SOCIAL MEDIA
Our meeting revolved around some interesting discussions and personal observations of the darker side of all the amazing technology that connects us together and at the same time isolates us from personal relationships.
WATCH some of this
video 17 min (2017)
Some Sample Branded Images that vie for our attention to capture blocks of our time through emotional responses
Here are more articles and studies related to this issue:
What Is Social Networking Addiction? At Harvard University, researchers actually hooked people up to functional
MRI machines to scan their brains and see what happens when they talk about
themselves, which is a key part of what people do in social media. They found
that self-disclosure
communication stimulates the brain's pleasure centers
much as sex and food do.
The five signs your child is addicted to their iPad - and how to give them a 'digital detox' (2013)
Parenting
in the Era of Addictive Electronics (2017) The evidence is mounting that screen time and electronics function like hard drugs for our kids. According to Dr. Victoria L. Dunckley, “screen time—particularly the interactive kind—acts like a stimulant, not unlike caffeine, amphetamines, or cocaine.” The dopamine released by the stimulation of electronics hits children especially virulently because their cerebral cortexes simply aren’t developed enough for them to feel satisfied with small doses or to self-regulate. “It’s not realistic to expect the brain to adapt to intense and artificial stimulation it was never meant to handle,” Dunckley adds. “It’s also not realistic to expect a child with still-developing frontal lobe to control their screen-time, whether that means managing how long they play a game, how they use or misuse social media, or how they behave afterward.”
Our minds can be hijacked He was particularly aware of the allure of Facebook “likes”, which
he describes as “bright dings of pseudo-pleasure” that can be as
hollow as they are seductive. And Rosenstein should know: he was the Facebook
engineer who created the “like” button in the first place.
If tech addiction is screwing up our kids, what should tech giants be doing?(2018)
A strange thing happened when New York Times tech writer Nick Bilton interviewed Apple CEO Steve Jobs in 2010. At the end of the conversation, Bilton asked Jobs what his kids thought of Apple’s new tablet, news of which was dominating websites, newspapers, and magazines. Jobs’ answer surprised him: it turned out Steve’s kids hadn’t tried the iPad yet. “We limit how much technology our kids use at home,” Jobs said. Bilton, stunned, reached out to Walter Isaacson, Jobs’ hand-picked official biographer, to find out whether he believed this to be true. Isaacson said that it was. “Every evening Steve made a point of having dinner at the big long table in their kitchen, discussing books and history and a variety of things,” he said. “No one ever pulled out an iPad or computer.
Phone Addiction Is Real -- And So Are Its Mental Health Risks (2017)
Last month, MIT’s Sloan Management Review published a clever experiment—professors at two business schools in Italy and France made giving up one's smartphone for a day a requirement of the students in their courses. Most of the students, who could plan what day they’d give up their phones, felt some degree of anxiety. They didn’t know what to do with the extra time, from eating breakfast to riding on public transportation. They also noted how often people who did have phones checked their phones—one student pointed out that his friend checked his phone four times in a 10 minute period—and that that was probably what they themselves looked like on a typical day.
Why
Is Social Media Addiction Bad for Mental Health? (2016) • Insecurity There is no need to eliminate the use of social media networks from your life
as long as you don’t develop an addiction to it. One of the primary reasons
why social platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are criticized
is because they can lead to severe addiction. The pleasure centers in your
brain are stimulated from social media activity as you get positive reinforcement
through the likes and comments on your posts. This leads to the production
of dopamine that can cause drug-related desires, hence leading to social network
addiction.
Science Fair Project - mp4 (2019) -
by Tom's 7th grade granddaughter
7 Scary Things
You Never Knew About Cell Phone Addiction (2018) New book: How To Break Up With Your Phone ( amazon.com) 1. There's a test for cell phone addiction 2. "Phubbing" is a thing (phone snubbing) 3. Social media apps are designed to hook you 4. Smartphones and slot machines have something in common 6. Apps are selling the most valuable thing we have 7. There's a good reason tech innovators don't let their kids have devices Do you feel like you can't concentrate anymore? Has your ability to remember
things you've read gotten dramatically worse since you started doing the lion's
share of your reading online? It's not your imagination. According to Price,
when we read digital media, the cluttered landscape of links and ads and the
short bursts of attention that are required by scrolling and swiping and tweeting result
in a contradiction in terms: "an intensely focused state of distraction." And
while that distraction seems like it should be temporary, its effects are actually
chillingly long-term. "This type of frequent, focused distraction," she
explains, "isn't just capable of creating long-lasting changes in our
brains; it is particularly good at doing so."
Social Media
Addiction - Some Steps to Fixing (2012)
The mother of all addictions, social media (2017)
Social
Media Addiction – The Facts and Solutions (2017) 5 Signs that Should Make you Worry About Your Social Media use 1. Cooking to share on Instagram. 2. Sharing everything you do at anytime. 3. Knowing everything about people you don’t know very well. 4. Being unhappy, due to comparing yourself with social networks personas. 5. Being unhappy when you can not reach your phone.
IMPROVE YOUR HEALTH IDEAS
Give up Watching / Listening to ALL NEWS on TV, Radio, Cell Phone, and Computer
for 1 Week/Month/Year - see if your health improves by avoiding stress-producing
sources of programmed anxiety
Alternative to Screentime: listen to Christian
Music Streams such
as Family Life Network, Bath, NY
HUMOR
TIP OF THE DAY How To Delete Multiple Names From iPhone CONTACTS With One Click
Download the free App called Groups from the App Store - read more here
NEXT MEETING - first Monday of each month
Hammondsport Mac Users Group - Hammondsport, NY 14840 - www.hportmug.com
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