Digital Minimalism

“only a few regions showed increased activity”
: Matthew D.
Lieberman, Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect (New York:
Crown, 2013), 16.
“it was an unusual question”
: Lieberman, Social, 16.
“other people, yourself, or both”
: Lieberman, Social, 18.
“virtually identical”
: Lieberman, Social, 18.
“I have since become convinced”
: Lieberman, Social, 19.
“clearly haven’t cultivated an interest”
: Lieberman, Social, 20.
“The brain did not evolve”
: Lieberman, Social, 15.
The first was an NPR story posted in March
: Katherine Hobson,
“Feeling Lonely?: Too Much Time on Social Media May Be Why,” NPR,
March 6, 2017, 
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-

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“when used properly”
: David Ginsberg and Moira Burke, “Hard
Questions: Is Spending Time on Social Media Bad for Us?,” Newsroom,
Facebook, December 15, 2017,
https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/12/hard-questions-is-spending-time-
on-social-media-bad-for-us
.
“brings us joy and strengthens”
: Ginsberg and Burke, “Spending Time
on Social.”
One of the main positive articles cited by the Facebook blog post
:
Moira Burke and Robert E. Kraut, “The Relationship Between Facebook Use
and Well-Being Depends on Communication Type and Tie Strength,”
Journal of Computer Mediated Communication 21, no. 4 (July 2016): 265–
81, 
https://doi.org/10.1111/jcc4.12162
.
Another positive article cited in the Facebook post
: Fenne große
Deters and Matthias R. Mehl, “Does Posting Facebook Status Updates
Increase or Decrease Loneliness? An Online Social Networking
Experiment,” Social Psychological and Personality Science 4, no. 5
(September 2013): 579–86, 
https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550612469233
.