For years, I played a game of virtual cat and mouse. I would post a photo, wait for ‘likes’, look to see what friends were doing, then, finding myself too distracted, my head spinning, delete the app. A few weeks later I would re-download it.
I knew that social media took me away from the physical world and I knew that, with a few clicks, it could drag me into its orbit, where I would remain for countless minutes, sometimes hours, before coming up for air. But I couldn’t resist it. The colours, the lights, the social updates, the endless scrolling – it was all too tempting, even as it muddied my brain.
We live in an age of distraction, spearheaded by the digital revolution. In 2022, over half the…
