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Le rêve éveillé chez les geeks

(Daydream for geeks)

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Newspaper | 24 heures
Date | 14.9.2015
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Summary | Smartphone addiction among young people can exasperate parents. Psychologists experts in this new field call this addiction "cyberaddiction" or "hyperconnectivity". It can have dangerous side effects for young geeks or nerds: isolation, irritability, school failure, etc. Sleep disorder is also a side effect of cyberaddiction: screens' artificial light prevent people from sleeping. They don't dream; they daydream.
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La vérité si je mens!

(The truth if I'm lying!)

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Newspaper | 24 heures
Date | 23.8.2015
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | research/study, social media
Summary | 66% of online users said they lie on social media. People have a tendency to portray themselves as beautiful, talented, and smart so that people can "like" them, notice them, or be jealous of them. What can we do against this syndrome? We can go back to "real" pleasures; for example, communicate with friends and not count them, or feel emoticons, and not click on them.
Image Description | Photograph in black and white of the author of the article.
Image Tags | female(s)

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