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>>giulio+(OP)
I'd like to see similar study about the original gateway drug: "24-hour News Channels", which was followed by "24-hour Outrage-News Channels". Seems like we've been building toward this, the interactivity of the internet was the paradigm shift (to use a 90's term). EDIT: I realize it isn't news messing with youths' self-esteem (well, in some cases it is), but it is related in that the media is custom-made to drive engagement at all costs.

>>sbf501+qh
We have been gamified. But then again spending 6 hours a day reading celebrity magazines to r watching daytime TV will equally rot our sense of balance.

We some how think this would be six hours replaced with "improving our minds", visiting museums and working on our calculus or oil painting.

I mean we could all do that. we more or less force our children to do that at school.

If there was a "improve my mind" button on facebook, do you think we would all press it?

I am torn between my pessimism and optimism