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Pros
Extremely informative. Good reminder that when a 'product' is 'free', then really you are the product and they make money selling you. Perfect buy for yourself or the tech addict in your life.
Bbm and that device did a bunch of normalization in regards to making it expected that you’re always available by phone. This is what led to the massive growth of what used to be called social networking, now called'media' it's called'removing the fri... Read More
This book examines the way that these websites construct dopamine hits for users and contribute to poor mental health. Thankfully, the book ends with ideas about how to curb our collective behavioral addictions.
Cons
He wants to write about this topic but still be invited to cocktail parties with tech and business people. The book ends suggesting that we can't escape technology and talks about the gamefication of mundane things.
The anecdotes go on and on, laboring for page after page to illustrate points that are simple enough to explain and illustrate in one tenth the space. And the anecdotes are not entertaining--alter lacks the storytelling capability to make them so, and... Read More
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Quality
Great read - does an awesome job curating and presenting the current problem set before outlining several solutions.
This book examines the way that these websites construct dopamine hits for users and contribute to poor mental health.
It’s all fun and fine for the first few weeks, but then the gamer realizes they can’t win without those power-ups.
I am changing how my family interacts, we no longer keep phones on table and no one looks at their phones during meals.
Price
They start out free, of course, or just a nominal fee to download the app.
Shipping
I received the book in time and was hooked on it from the moment i started reading it to the end.
) i contacted amazon and was immediately shipped a replacement in perfect condition!
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behavioral, good, social, addictive and great. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
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- Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 79.8% of the reviews are reliable.
- This product had a total of 2,018 reviews as of our last analysis date on Mar 27 2024.
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This book originally came looking like it was used with bends and damage to the cover
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Even though you may believe you are consuming worthwhile content
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My eyesight has been problematic as i am aging so i have gotten away from reading books for a long time—too long
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But i want to get away from consuming on the internet and get back to spending time reading
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While i found this book a little bit repetitive and tedious it was tolerable for an audio book
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Im unsure if id of mastered the will and stamina to plow through a hard copy
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However it was full of good and eyeopening information on the effects of our digital devices
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