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Think Before You Like: Social Media's Effect on the Brain and the Tools You Need to Navigate Your Newsfeed QUOTES

Think Before You Like: Social Media's Effect on the Brain and the Tools You Need to Navigate Your Newsfeed QUOTES

1 " The human brain is an organ out of time. It stands as evolved and best suited for daily life in the Pleistocene yet here it is, having to make do in a modern, high-tech, wired, and fast-changing world. "

― Guy P. Harrison , Think Before You Like: Social Media's Effect on the Brain and the Tools You Need to Navigate Your Newsfeed

2 " You are not the sum of your Google searches, Amazon purchases, and Facebook likes. Your online activities should not define you as a person. But, increasingly, they do. "

― Guy P. Harrison , Think Before You Like: Social Media's Effect on the Brain and the Tools You Need to Navigate Your Newsfeed

3 " Mozart's music on a smartphone can't redeem or compensate for our lust for the ludicrous. Suckers for empty promises, false hopes, and pseudoscientific babble, we are our own worst enemies. Few people take the time to learn how brains process sensory input in misleading ways and how subconscious biases influence conscious thinking. The result is a global population teeming with easy targets for digitized nonsense and deception. "

― Guy P. Harrison , Think Before You Like: Social Media's Effect on the Brain and the Tools You Need to Navigate Your Newsfeed