3 ridiculous myths about how technology is destroying your mind

Social media destroys real relationships? Not true.

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Did you know that technology is terrible and is destroying our minds? It's true. It must be true, because people keep saying it. In the 1960's, television ("the boob tube") was the "vast wasteland" turning our brains into mush. In the 1980's, video games were the culprit du jour. More recently, Google has been making us stupid and social media is destroying our real-world relationships.

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