According to a study, social networks have a greater capacity for addiction than tobacco or alcohol. Find out the details.
Young people aged 16 to 24 are at the greatest risk of becoming addicted to social media and ending up with “brain rot”.
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The term Brainrot, or broken brainrefers to how the brain is after consume low-value Internet content. A New York Times article claimed that those who use this term They would already be suffering from this “syndrome”This word, which has been circulating since 2007, is already part of the vocabulary of some teenagers, demonstrating how internalized it is.
The young people aged 16 to 24 They are the ones most at risk of falling into social media addiction and ending up with “brain rot.” Sherry Turkle, an American psychoanalyst, said that “the bonds we form through the Internet are not, in the end, the bonds that unite, but they are the ones that worry.”
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What is “broken brain” disorder?
The article explains that “The term brainrot It refers, above all, to low-value internet content and the effects of spending too much time consuming them. For example: “I’ve been watching so many TikTok videos that I’m already suffering from brain rot.”
According to researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital (United States), brainrot it’s a disorder related to “problematic use of interactive media.”
The doctor who founded the hospital’s Digital Wellbeing Lab, Michael Rich, confessed that his patients refer to the brainrot as “a way to describe what happens when you spend a lot of time on the Internet, and you have transferred your consciousness to the online space instead of real life”.
A study by the Chicago Booth School of Business conducted a decade ago noted that “social media They have a greater addictive capacity than tobacco or alcohol.because access is easy, immediate and free.” For this reason, Steve Jobs himself limited the time his children spent in front of screens or using technology.
What are the symptoms?
According to influencer Joel Cave, with 110,000 followers on TikTok, to know if a brain has been destroyed by social media you can notice How often does that person refer to internet slang?“The fact that the internet can infiltrate our brains so much that people don’t even have control over what they say — they just have to talk about whatever meme they’ve seen a lot — is crazy to me,” he said.
Other effects that could be caused by the almost continuous use of these networks are: anxiety, depression, isolation, withdrawal from real life, and irritability.
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