Science has NOT shied away from stating unequivocally that a new text or new email targets the same part of the brain as sex, food and narcotics.
You get a hit of dopamine each and every time you get that ding that there’s a new text or email.
Like lab rats, we want that hit again and again so we keep checking.
Of course there are differences like no tremors and shakes and possible seizures from withdrawal.
I think!! :)
I’m lucky as those things don’t affect me. I have lots to occupy my time and attention. However I love my iPhone not only because I’m a photographer but I moved away from my “homeland” three years ago so my family and all my friends are essentially inside my phone.
As for social media I’m currently in Twitter jail. Some snowflake got butthurt that I dared to post about the black on black killings last weekend in NYC and Chicago on Ricky Gervais’s post bashing those witless celebrities saying “I hear you.”
So I’m ok being off Twitter as I appealed but more it just makes me mad their rules are so skewed. I was accused of inciting violence or threatening. Only that I called them out for never talking about black on black crime!
Little me, maturing woman, in beautiful Georgia country just stating facts. Sitting here not a threat to anyone.