Technology Steals Our Privacy and Mental Health

We can’t neurologically handle being on multiple screens most of the day and night.

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There’s plenty of anecdotal evidence we’ve become addicted to the dopamine hit we get by being saturated in likes, followers, and notifications every minute of the day — and night.

We also have tablets, laptops, desktops, monitors, televisions, smartwatches, voice-generated command devices, and video game players.

Through the 1980s, most of us had cassette players and stereos, beepers, and televisions. Before smartphones and widespread video surveillance, we usually had no idea where our friends and family were at any given moment…and had no technological way of finding out.

I’m particularly interested in how spending 10 or 15 hours a day on social media, the internet, laptops, desktops, monitors, and television screens affects our privacy, mood, ability to rest and rejuvenate our minds, and attention span.

You’re never alone — the death of privacy

We lost the sense of privacy we had for tens of thousands of years — in a metaphorical instant.

Those over 50, experienced their young adulthood in near-solitude — no texts, multiple screens, GPS…