Social Media Is Rewiring Your Brain To Be Lazy, Unfocused, and Sad

In an era of hyper-connectivity, our day-to day whereabouts have become consumed by the need to “keep up.” This doesn’t just mean keeping up with your friends’ life milestones we all oddly have instant access to through Facebook, but instead the smaller, insignificant alerts that compound in their ability to detract us from what actually matters. An inbox that never closes, Slack notifications that don’t know boundaries, text messages that are contingent on your immediate response, and a TikTok feed that demands your index finger for more…