In a few hours I will enter into a 20 days offline challenge. This is probably the longest time for me with no Internet since a clinical stay a few years ago with no mobile phone.
I believe we live in a world where online is the new – or the other new – reality. It goes even so far that companies dub themselves the same as this reality. In hope that users do get used to this even faster? Do we need a digital reality which ’employ’ us stronger than the other reality?
The other reality which has been there for as long as people got the fire from Prometheus? Where can I cut the cord? Where can I step back into this reality which makes us dependent on speech, walking and carrying stuff?
For me as a trained computer scientist, IT and digital kind the vastness of the digital world is fascinating. You can go as fast as your fingers type and as far as you wish. As someone with addictive traits I believe this has many consequences.. from the digital footprint to the time consuming messages, notifications and media. It is a bit like one foot is always in another world.
Querying social media addiction related to dopamin ‘shots’ shows very little research.
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