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Facebook & Instagram Bots to Engage in Dirty Sick Sex Chats with Children of All Ages

BAD BOTS – April 27, 2025 - Meta’s AI-powered chatbots on Facebook and Instagram are able to engage in graphic sex talk with users, even children, with the voices of Disney characters and celebrities. AI using the p... Read More...

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Schools Should Ban Cell Phones as Addiction Remedy

AND SUGAR TOO? – April 24, 2025 - Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested Thursday banning cellphones in schools as a remedy for the nation’s addiction crisis. Citing an epidemic of hopele... Read More...

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Smartphones Lower Rates of Cognitive Decline for Elders

NOW IT’S GOOD FOR YOU – April 14, 2025 - Fears that smartphones, tablets and other devices could drive dementia in later life have been challenged by research that found lower rates of cognitive decline in olde... Read More...

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Thinking of Going Boy Sober?

OR WITHOUT WOMEN – April 9, 2025 - Hope deleted all her dating apps and made a promise to herself: No more dates for a year. Then, armed with a catchy new term coined by her sister, Hope started documenti... Read More...

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‘The Social Network’ and Mass Technological Addiction!

RIGHT UP YOUR SPECTRUM – April 9, 2024 - The “new thing” is better, of course. Its creators are gods, but few win enough power to play god. “The Social Network” (2010) depicts just that: the beginning of ... Read More...

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Smartphone Addiction Leads To “brain rot”

TOO LATE NOW – March 19, 2025 - MRI images of addicted smartphone users’ brains were so colorful, meaning so active, it made them less attentive and more easily distracted — what is now informally called “brain rot.”... Read More...

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Giving Up Your Phone For 3 Days Can Reshape Your Brain Activity

AND MAKE YOU HAPPY – March 3, 2025 - How far away is your phone right now? When did you last look at it? For many of us, these digital devices are almost constantly in our hands, and a new study highlights the effect... Read More...

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Common Habit Proves You’re Addicted to Your Phone

AND SO WE ARE – March 7, 2025 - Now, a new study from Amazon Kindle has revealed just how dire our screen habits are, showing we’re more addicted to our devices than we might think. “Every time we receive a notificat... Read More...

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Each Hour Your Child Spends On Screens Increases Their Chances of Myopia

EYESIGHT IS ENDANGERED – Feb. 21, 2025 - Myopia is caused by having an over elongated eyeball and is a growing problem, with research suggesting about 40% of children and adolescents worldwide could have the conditio... Read More...

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Your Phone Is Dirtier Than a Toilet Seat

USE DISINFECTANT WIPES – Dec. 30, 2024 - Here’s How to Clean It the Right WayIt’s not a lie -- your phone harbors more bacteria than a toilet seat. Considering you put your phone against your face when making c... Read More...

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Psychologists Researching Smartphone Program for Treating Addiction

AUDIO – REALLY? – Dec. 20, 2024 - “Sometimes, there’s a reaction to some of these types of treatments, like we shouldn’t be giving something to people who have an addiction. But on a practical level these treatments ... Read More...

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California Wants Social Media To Have ‘black box warning’ For Kids

TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE? – Dec. 19, 2024 - Assembly Bill 56 (AB 56) proposes a mandatory ‘black box warning’ on social media sites during a user’s first time on the platform. The message would appear for at least 90 sec... Read More...

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Phones in Spain Might Carry Health Warnings

LIKE CIGARETTES? – Dec. 4, 2024 - Proposals include banning digital devices for kids under three and restricting their use for those between three and six, except in rare cases. The report also advises rolling out so... Read More...

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Banning Social Media for Kids Under 16

VIDEO – FOR OVER 16 TOO? – Nov. 30, 2024 - The National’s Ian Hanomansing asks tech journalist Carmi Levy to break down how real... Read More...

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What Is Brain Rot?

BEYOND DENMARK? – Dec. 1, 2024 - Brain rot is defined as the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material considered to be trivial ... Read More...

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Addictions, Smartphones and School Bans

GENERATION DISCOMBOBULATION – Oct. 31, 2024 - My interest centers around the overuse of smartphones and other devices by children that can develop into what mental health professionals refer to as a “process addictio... Read More...

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AI-Powered Exploitive Crimes Exploding

ESPECIALLY IF YOU’RE HIGH – Oct. 10, 2024 - The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center received 38,000 reports about investment scams from January to October, amounting to $4.7 billion in losses. That’s up from 30,000... Read More...

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States Sue TikTok For Harming Youth’s Brains

GET IN LINE – Oct. 8, 2024 - More than a dozen states and the District of Columbia filed lawsuits against TikTok on Tuesday, alleging the popular short-form video app is damaging children’s mental health with a produ... Read More...

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Mental Health Warning on Social Media Sites?

FRIGHTENING VIDEO – IS IT TOO LATE? – Sept. 11, 2024 - “Social media platforms are designed to addict users—especially our kids —to spend countless hours digging for their algorithmic fix,” Coleman said in a news rel... Read More...

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Understanding Social Media Addiction

AUDIO – WISHFUL SCROLLING – Aug. 27, 2024 - From endless scrolling to dopamine hits of likes and shares, social media has become... Read More...

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Are You ‘addicted’ To Your Phone?

ONLY WHILE AWAKE (OR NOT) – Aug. 26, 2024 - “It’s hard not to resist picking it up and swiping it open,” Gloria Mark, chancellor’s professor of informatics at the University of California, Irvine, who studies the imp... Read More...

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Hang Up Your Cellphone Addiction

VIDEO – THE NEW CIGARETTES, BUT USEFUL – July 22, 2024 - Almost 50% of Americans are addicted to their cell phones. On average, people check their phones every 12 minutes throughout the day. Whether texting, cal... Read More...

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Is Social Media the New Smoking?

IT’S ADDICTIVE – July 14, 2024 - The parallels between social media and smoking are striking. Both began as widely accepted societal habits before their negative impacts became apparent. In the same way that s... Read More...

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Kids Struggling With Screen Addiction

GEN THUMB? – July 11, 2024 - Like many teens his age, KJ became consumed by watching TikTok, YouTube, and sometimes Snapchat videos. He especially enjoys watching videos on barbering. On weekends and school ni... Read More...

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We Simply Cannot Leave Kids to their Own Devices

AUDIO – MAKING CHILDREN CRAZY – July 8, 2024 - It’s unlikely these bans will stop kids from doomscrolling outside of school hours. And even if governments can get the likes of Meta and TikTok to age-gate their plat... Read More...

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Social Media Addiction Among Young People Very Worrisome

GENERATION ILLITERATE? – July 4, 2024 - I am writing this in light of U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s op-ed in The New York Times and the recent article published about that op-ed by ABC News. Many current... Read More...

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Should ‘Addictive’ Social Media Be Regulated?

VIDEO – NOT THIS SITE – June 26, 2024 - Dr. Anna Lembke, medical director of addiction medicine at Stanford University, explains how constant connection can be harmful and why governments, companies and families sh... Read More...

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45 States Hammer Zuckerberg Over Child Endangerment

THE LOST GENERATION – June 22, 2024 - As one example of Zuckerberg’s decision-making, executive David Ginsberg told him in 2019 citing concern about “areas of problematic use/addiction and teens,” says court r... Read More...

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Does Science Support Call for Warning Label on Social Media?

NPR AUDIO – BULLSH#T BACKDOWN – June 20, 2024 - FADEL: Are there things about social media that have been good when it comes to adolescents engagements online there?JENSEN: There certainly are. So, indeed, you... Read More...

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Failed Children on Safety

LIKE PARENTS? – June 22, 2024 - The C.E.O. and his team drove Meta’s efforts to capture young users and misled the public about the risks, lawsuits by state attorneys general say. States accuse Meta of unfairl... Read More...

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