In this digital age where everything is at our fingertips, and you can look up anything from gluten-free recipes to effective ways to poison people, there was bound to be a catch to it in the end.
Spending hours on the internet and wasting away your free time instead of going outside and socializing appears to be a symptom of depression, according to researchers at the University of Leeds. Using the internet in place of real-life social interactions takes away the outside stimulants that the human brain needs to continue growing and staying fresh and in some small sense, alive. Take away these stimulants and replace them with a screen and you get a very passive way of experiencing life and people.
So what are you doing reading this, when you should be outside stimulating your brain? Stop that!
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