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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    11 months ago

    What you say is true, but the internet bubble was also a paper. So if OP thinks that’s right and the papers saying it doesn’t exist are wrong, then I’d like to know why.

    Simply having a “feeling” is as scientific as “god said so”.