It was this idea, that something as simple as silence might have shaped our country’s history, that brought me to Lincoln’s cottage that fall afternoon to find out more. (Location 1295)
(The term constant is not hyperbole: a 2015 study by Common Sense Media found that teenagers were consuming media—including text messaging and social networks—nine hours per day on average.) (Location 1508)
She told me that everyone seemed to suddenly be suffering from anxiety or anxiety-related disorders. When I asked her what she thought caused the change, she answered without hesitation that it probably had something to do with smartphones. (Location 1517)
These teenagers have lost the ability to process and make sense of their emotions, or to reflect on who they are and what really matters, or to build strong relationships, or even to just allow their brains time to power down their critical social circuits, which are not meant to be used constantly, and to redirect that energy to other important cognitive housekeeping tasks. We shouldn’t be surprised that these absences lead to malfunctions. (Location 1556)
It’s in this chapter, more specifically in maxim 34, that we find the following strong claim: “Only thoughts reached by walking have value.”41 To underscore his esteem for walking, Nietzsche also notes: “The sedentary life is the very sin against the Holy Spirit.”42 Nietzsche was speaking from personal experience. (Location 1657)
Note: no examination
As I’ll argue, this post represented a momentous shift in how Facebook talks about itself—a shift that might turn out to be a major folly for the social media giant, and perhaps even mark the beginning of the end of its current moment of cultural ubiquity. (Location 2820)
Note: Nothing about demographic or how social media is varied
(for me, for example, baseball news about the Washington Nationals becomes impossibly appealing at times), (Location 2997)
