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‘It is hijacking my brain’ – a team of experts found ways to help young people addicted to social media to cut the craving

  • Written by Annie Margaret, Teaching Assistant Professor of Creative Technology & Design, ATLAS Institute, University of Colorado Boulder
imageSome young people spend hours a day on social media.ViewApart/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Many people have compared the addictive nature of social media to cigarettes. Checking your likes, they say, is the new smoke break. Others say the unease over social media is just the next round of moral panic about new technologies.

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