{"id":17,"date":"2017-11-10T22:05:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T22:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/natureofwork.co\/social-media-is-the-new-tobacco\/"},"modified":"2020-04-12T20:48:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T20:48:25","slug":"social-media-is-the-new-tobacco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/natureofwork.co\/social-media-is-the-new-tobacco\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media is the New Tobacco"},"content":{"rendered":"
A little while ago I wrote about\u00a0creating space for your mind to process thoughts and feelings<\/a>, the premise was that we simply don\u2019t make any time for this anymore. In reflecting about this, and researching further, I\u2019ve realized the problem is actually far worse and that a lack of mental space is just the beginning. To quote\u00a0Tristan Harris<\/a>:<\/p>\n \u201cTechnology is hijacking the evolutionary vulnerabilities of the human mind to control human attention.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n It\u2019s completely out of control.<\/p>\n I know it sounds hyperbolized to say that social media is the new tobacco, but bear with me. The analogy is frighteningly accurate the more you explore it.<\/p>\n It may sound hyperbolized to say that social media is the new tobacco, but bear with me. The analogy is frighteningly accurate the more you explore it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"disabled","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
Read the full post on Medium<\/a>.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"