average user
we check our phones
221 times a day
starting at around 7:31 a.m
there goes the alarm
the news
the weather
before we’ve even got out of bed
three hours and sixteen minutes a day on our
device
touch our phone 2,617 times per day
constantly contactable
ceaseless barrage of emails
calls
and texts
selfie culture
40 per cent of our speech time
informs others about our own
subjective experiences
fires up neural pathways
associated with reward
activates addiction centres in the brain such as
the nucleus accumbens.
a few selfies
mindless updates on Facebook, I
nstagram and
Snapchat
create a feedback
loop in your brain
crave
more and more of the same
just like many drugs