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Free Your Mind from Smartphone and Social Media Stress

This book is like a slap in your digital face - a much needed one. Nuanced and based on proper research, you are taken through various aspects of digital manipulation. Decision and compassion fatigue, cognitive bias and dissonance, brain hacks, escapism, lack of impulse control, digital pollution.........more

Like another reviewer here on Goodreads has said, this book is a slap in your digital face. I think most people are aware of the fact that they are spending too much time on Facebook/YouTube/Instagram or their smartphone in general. Apart from reminding you that spending too much time online can be......more

actual rating: 3.5/5 a much needed slap in the face, will now think twice on how i use my smartphone......more

Offline, by Imran Rashid and Soren Kenner delves into the addictive world of social media and how it influences different areas of our lives. If you’re anything like me, then you likely love how easy it is to connect with other people around the world. But then in comes the stress and the negativity......more

I don't own an iPhone and almost never switch on my mobile (once a fortnight, perhaps), so I'm far removed from the phone-addicted masses. While working on my laptop, however, I have observed vast swathes of time disappearing whenever I log in to social media or check e-mails. The Internet has becom......more