Internet Addiction
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Exploiting the Neuroscience of Internet Addiction
The leaders of Internet companies face an interesting, if also morally questionable, imperative: either they hijack neuroscience to gain market share and make large profits, or they let competitors do that and run away with the market.
In the Industrial Age, Thomas Edison famously said, "I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent." In the Internet Age, more and more companies live by the mantra "create an obsession, then exploit it." Gaming companies talk openly about creating a "compulsion loop," which works roughly as follows: the player plays the game; the player achieves the goal; the player is awarded new content; which…
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Addicted to Social Media? Try These Books
Wave of new books explores benefits of solitude, time in nature and escaping technology; 200th anniversary of Thoreau’s birth.
Cyberbullying Is a Bigger Problem Than Screen Time Addiction
The harms that can come to children who use technology excessively — including depression, behavioral problems and poor academic performance — are not just caused by too much screen time. It is the nature of the interactions that take place through the screen that count. Simply limiting screen time ignores the many benefits of technology for teenagers.
Do You Have an Internet Addiction?
We often equate the word “addiction” to substances like drugs and alcohol. However, in the digital age, more and more people struggle with Internet addiction.
How to Break Your Smartphone Addiction
If you're a millennial like me or an avid smartphone user of any age, I'm sure you'd agree you would benefit from learning how to break your smartphone addiction. Smartphones have become our digital appendages, where we can tweet, text, snap a picture, shop, watch videos and more within a matter of seconds. While this accessibility can be convenient, it can also be overwhelming and even detrimental in the event of cell phone addiction.
Internet Addiction Isn’t An ‘Official’ Diagnosis, But This Center Is Devoted To Treating It
What are you supposed to do when the Internet “crosses from a hobby to a crutch”?
It’s ‘digital heroin’: How screens turn kids into psychotic junkies
We now know that those iPads, smartphones and Xboxes are a form of digital drug.
Obsessed with the Internet: A Tale from China
But in China’s rigid, hypercompetitive society, the Internet explosion represents more than a disciplinary annoyance. It is seen as an existential threat. And that helps explain why treating kids with supposed Internet addiction has become a national obsession.
Resist the Internet
Compulsions are rarely harmless. The internet is not the opioid crisis; it is not likely to kill you (unless you’re hit by a distracted driver) or leave you ravaged and destitute. But it requires you to focus intensely, furiously, and constantly on the ephemera that fills a tiny little screen, and experience the traditional graces of existence — your spouse and friends and children, the natural world, good food and great art — in a state of perpetual distraction.
The Binge Breaker
Tristan Harris believes Silicon Valley is addicting us to our phones. He’s determined to make it stop.
The Rise of the Internet-Addiction Industry
Treatment centers are opening across the U.S., but mental-health experts still disagree on whether excessive time on the web qualifies as a disorder.
Warning: Your New Digital World Is Highly Addictive
Technology now is designed to make it “irresistible,” argues psychology and marketing professor Adam Alter.
Exploiting the Neuroscience of Internet Addiction
Much of what we do online releases dopamine into the brain's pleasure centers, resulting in obsessive pleasure-seeking behavior. Technology companies face the option to exploit our addictions for profit.
reSTART
Helping connect digital media users with what matters most - life. Our innovative program model assists the digitally distracted discover their passion and purpose in life. At reSTART, we understand that problematic Internet and gaming use often co-occurs with other mental health conditions.
Net Addiction
The center for Internet addiction...your source since 1995.
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