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Keep going back. Novels used to be unhealthy: https://op-talk.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/when-novels-were-bad-for-you/ https://op-talk.blogs.nytimes.com/2014

Keep going back. Novels used to be unhealthy: https://op-talk.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/when-novels-were-bad-for-you/ https://op-talk.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/when-novels-wer... More recently, parents used to complain about teenage girls locking themselves in their rooms to talk on the phone with their friends.

Wowfunhappy 8y ago
The fact that parents have had somewhat silly concerns about past technologies does not discount current concerns. I truly believe that the new crop of "psychologically optimized" mobile games and apps have crossed a line in this regard. Books, movies, comics etc were of course designed to be appealing and enjoyable, but were not specifically designed to consume as much of your time as they possibly could.