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  1. Samuel Hodgkins (samis) 🍄 (samis@mastodon.9net.org)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2018 15:45:07 EST Samuel Hodgkins (samis) 🍄 Samuel Hodgkins (samis) 🍄

    https://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/your-smartphone-is-making-you-stupid/article37511900/
    'Matt Mayberry, who works at a California startup called Dopamine Labs, says it's common knowledge in the industry that Instagram exploits this craving by strategically withholding "likes" from certain users. If the photo-sharing app decides you need to use the service more often, it'll show only a fraction of the likes you've received on a given post at first, hoping you'll be disappointed with your haul and check back again in a minute or two.'
    This is terribly wrong.

    In conversation Sunday, 14-Jan-2018 15:45:07 EST from mastodon.9net.org permalink

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    1. Your smartphone is making you stupid, antisocial and unhealthy. So why can’t you put it down?
      from The Globe and Mail
      A decade ago, smart devices promised to change the way we think and interact, and they have – but not by making us smarter. Eric Andrew-Gee explores the growing body of scientific evidence that digital distraction is damaging our minds
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