These people have managed to do what I cannot.

🇳🇴 https://www.nrk.no/norge/finn-hobbyen-som-gir-deg-mer-energi-enn-mobilen-1.17778178

🇬🇧 https://translate.kagi.com/www.nrk.no/norge/finn-hobbyen-som-gir-deg-mer-energi-enn-mobilen-1.17778178

#NorskTut #Allheimen #ScreenAddiction #InternetAddiction #NorwegianNews #KagiTranslate

Why Online Behavior Is Getting Darker

Cyber psychology studies how humans behave on social media and through information technology. Dr. Michael Nuccitelli explains why internet addiction research is just beginning.

The full episode explores cyberstalking, trolling, AI predators, and the rise in digital hostility.

Listen to the full episode: https://youtu.be/GZXRCh6xW8A

#CyberPsychology #DigitalEthics #OnlineHarassment #podcast #InternetAddiction #MentalHealth

The Dark Side of Digital Dependency

Internet addiction isn’t harmless scrolling. It can increase vulnerability to online victimization — and raise the risk of becoming an aggressor.

Dr. Michael Nuccitelli explains how anonymity, rage, and digital overuse contribute to rising cyberstalking and harassment.

The full episode explores the psychology behind today’s escalating online toxicity.

Watch the full discussion here: https://youtu.be/GZXRCh6xW8A

#InternetAddiction #CyberSafety #Cyberstalking

Adam Mosseri Claims 16 Hours Of Daily Instagram 'Problematic’ But Not Addiction Triggering Hilarious Memes

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://in.mashable.com/tech/105809/adam-mosseri-claims-16-hours-of-daily-instagram-problematic-but-not-addiction-triggering-hilarious-m

No Phone, No Social Safety Net: Welcome to the ‘Offline Club’

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/europe-offline-club-phone-addiction/

The irony of posting this on the Fediverse is not lost on me. 😉

I usually like to take a few weeks off a each year at least. But, a less distracting internet (and cell phone) would be a good thing.

It's a shame our monkey brains won't buy it, and make it a viable option, when we have all that temptation.

Guest Essay
"What Happened When My Yale Students Gave Up Their Phones for Four Weeks"

#NYTimes #GiftedArticle #Gift #Luddite #Addiction #InternetAddiction #SocialMediaAddiction #Sabbatical #TechSabbatical

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/opinion/tech-free-college-spaces.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-U8.4yw9.eYxnMuL4NekO&smid=url-share

"Seeing the internet as a fairyland — an otherworld with its own logic — isn’t about mystifying technology. It’s about seeing it sharply, as the strange and powerful environment it really is. In this way, enchantment restores what habit has made invisible.

The internet is a place crowded with uncanny entities and enchantments. Sometimes these enchantments reach back into our physical world. If we hope to travel wisely, the old instructions still apply: mark the threshold, remember that time moves differently there and know that every gift from the otherworld carries a price.

Above all, keep part of yourself rooted in the real world — grounded, embodied and tethered to other people. We’ve seen what happens when someone wanders too far. Think of all the lost boys who have disappeared into their rooms, only to return as something unrecognizable, like a modern changeling. Or the many adults who have fallen victim to conspiratorial thinking, caught the way wanderers once followed will-o’-the-wisps into the marsh, seduced by lights that were always illusory."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/opinion/internet-phones-social-media-addiction.html

#SocialMedia #MobilePhone #AI #InternetAddiction #FairyTales #Storytelling

Re-stating some comments about this story:

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-obsessed-xai-ani

"Give this man a trillion dollars and control of the planet... and what could possibly go wrong?"

In past times, I'd be fascinated by both the #AI & #InternetAddiction aspects.

But this gets to #cyberpsychology, our relationship (or not) to humans vs #technology

And now there's this #TrumpVIrus variant running wild in #Muskville. And Stable Genius Jr is in love.

(Well, fewer mouths to feed, I guess. He's so smart!)