Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

THE DUALITY OF WELLNESS & TECHNOLOGY | The Pro's & Con's of Tech | Mind Pump

5 Sept 2017 · 1 min

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YouTube discussion (Mind Pump) about the dual effects of wellness and technology, focusing on social media’s addictive design and uncertain long-term effects. Speakers describe likes/tags triggering endorphin rushes, apps engineered to encourage addictive use, comparisons to drug addiction, and concern about only ~10 years of tracking data. They also note society’s role as consumers shaping produced media.

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The way that you get this endorphin rush. When you get a like or a new person who adds to you, or somebody talks about you or tags you. Every time you, you open that and you see that on Facebook or on Instagram, you get this release and this rush and.
That kind of 24 hour connectiveness, it went from none to everyone so fast.
What is scary about this is that we only have about 10 years of tracking. We don't know what the long term effects are. This, and they do a lot of crazy comparisons to drug addiction.
It's going to be a.
Challenge going forward. Removing that. These tools, these apps were engineered to do that, to get you addicted to it.
And remember, we're the drivers of media. What we consume is, what they'll produce.
Is getting out of control. And you don't even realize it's.