Social media divides us, makes us more extreme and less empathetic, it riles us up or sucks us into doom scrolling, making us stressed and depressed. It feels like we need to touch grass and escape to the real world.

New research shows that we might have largely misinterpreted why this is the case. It turns out that the social media internet may uniquely undermine the way our brains work but not in the way you think.

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  • t3rmit3@beehaw.org
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    7 months ago

    Anyone who thinks their country is more “civilized” than to engage in bigotry is just revealing that they live in a bubble themselves.