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☆ Influencers rode out Hurricane Milton for the content. Why are we watching?
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-12 | by ( Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

He then decided to stay put for Hurricane Milton, posting about his prep and decision to ride out the latest storm. But the trend was a reminder of how social media can make dangerous situations worse. TikTok also directed users who watched or searched for Hurricane Milton content to information from the US Federal Emergency Management Agency. But social media users (myself absolutely included) also incentivize this kind of creator behavior, by scrolling and watching. Many of the creators who shared content from the heart of the storm racked up thousands of likes and comments.

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☆ What one high school senior wants you to know about classroom phone bans
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-08 | by ( Faye Chiu | Personal Essay Mary Frances Ruskell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

At least seven of the 20 largest school districts in the nation have either banned phones during the school day or plan to do so. Smartphone use is inextricably linked with high school studies and student life, Mary Frances Ruskell (not shown) writes. After three years of having the app, I did finally delete TikTok during my sophomore year of high school. As a teenage girl, I find that Instagram is in many ways necessary to high school life. I can’t even imagine what a phone-free high school life would look like.

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☆ A Cure for Doomscrolling: Shaming Your Friends
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-01 | by ( Amanda Hoover | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

For The New York Times' games app, it filled me with ire; I can't do a Sunday crossword in 10-minute increments. One downloaded it, restricted TikTok, and then texted me: "I'm currently scrolling on TikTok and plan to all day. Royce Branning, a cofounder of Clearspace, says the company started testing the friends feature after hearing that users were taking screenshots of their Clearspace screen tracking and sharing it with one another. I'm not sure where my friends spent all their screen time, but being on a phone doesn't inherently ruin your life. Maybe logging in to an app like Clearspace with friends, family, and romantic partners could help people police each other.

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☆ 36-year-old’s Etsy side hustle brings in up to $54,000 a month, takes 10 hours a week—it paid off her student loan debt
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-30 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Emily Odio-Sutton started her Etsy side hustle on her couch while watching a "Real Housewives" TV show in December 2022. She doesn't recall which one, but she does remember the months of research fed into that moment. When a customer places an order, a third-party manufacturer prints the design onto the product and ships it out. DON'T MISS: The ultimate guide to earning passive income onlineIn her best month so far, the side hustle — which takes roughly 10 hours per week, she says — brought in $54,900. It padded her family's finances, paying for vacations and her $20,000 in student loans, she says.

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☆ How to increase your attention span amid digital overload
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-11 | by ( Riane Lumer | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

While a dwindling attention span is not due to a personal failing (despite individual variability) a majority of the time, experts say there are changes you can make to regain control over your mind. “Tech companies and ad marketing companies use this information to construct profiles about us, and then they design algorithms that are targeted to capture our attention,” Mark said. “We have a tank of attentional resources (that) gets drained when we keep switching our attention,” Mark said. Additionally, he suggested using an app that places time limits on social media or websites you find yourself addicted to using. “The way I feel at the moment is like somebody is pouring itching powder over us all day,” Hari said.

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☆ I quit social media and online shopping to regain control of my life. Here's what I learned from my 30-day experiment.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-15 | by ( Andrew Lambrecht | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

My drugs of choice are social media and online car shopping. While certainly not as instantly gratifying as social media, these tasks gave me a sense of accomplishment when I finished. I've stopped scrolling on Instagram when I wake up, and I no longer feel compelled to check social media incessantly. Whenever I'm working on something now, I resist the urge to watch YouTube or scroll through social media. I still use social media, though I typically schedule content ahead of time and log out after posting.

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☆ A psychologist explains how to deal with feelings of despair after the assassination attempt on Trump
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-15 | by ( Katie Balevic | Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump may have just kicked things into overdrive. As world leaders and politicians call for peace and unity, a poll found 50% of Americans believe political violence is a "very big problem" following the shooting at a Trump campaign event on Saturday that left two people dead. AdvertisementAn alarming 67% of Americans polled said the current political climate makes such violence "more likely" than normal. It'll allow people to be aware of their three domains, Porterfield said: the biological, the psychological, and the social. ControlIn the past five years, people have lived through a pandemic, several wars, and now, an assassination attempt on a former president.

Persons: —, Donald Trump, Katherine Porterfield, John F, Kennedy, Rev, Martin Luther King Jr, that's, Porterfield Organizations: Service, Dart Center for Journalism, Trauma, Columbia School of Journalism, Business, Trump

☆ The world is the happiest it's been since the pandemic, according to a new report
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-05 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Positive emotions globally are the highest since 2020 and negative emotions are down, per a Gallup report. A survey of thousands of people in 142 countries found people are learning new things at record rates. Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Overall, positive emotions around the world are at the highest levels seen since 2020, and negative emotions have decreased slightly for the first time since 2014, according to the latest Gallup Global Emotions report.

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☆ Opinion | Should Social Media Come With Warning Labels?
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-24 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

To the Editor:Re “Social Media Platforms Need a Health Warning,” by Vivek H. Murthy, the U.S. surgeon general (Opinion guest essay, June 18):Dr. Murthy makes a compelling case for social media warning labels and offers parents sound suggestions for protecting their kids from toxic content. An entire generation of children is growing up watching their parents, older siblings and other family members glued to their phones, posting pictures, sharing memes, debating politics and doomscrolling day and night as life passes them by. Consistently modeling the behavior they’d like to see in their kids would circumvent even the most powerful algorithms and make parents the ultimate social media influencers. The writer is president and C.E.O. of the Family and Children’s Association.

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☆ This 3-step process could help you break your bad habits
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-06 | by ( Ernestine Siu | In Ernestinesiu | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Nir Eyal is the author of "Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life." People tend to blame external factors for their bad habits, but the truth is that the root cause is usually internal. "It's an emotion regulation problem," says Nir Eyal, behavioral design expert and best-selling author of "Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life." The average in Thailand was 5.64 hours of screen time, and 4.77 hours in India, according to the same dataset. Ultimately, in order to cut out bad habits associated with distraction, people need to learn how to regulate their emotions and master their internal triggers.

Persons: Nir Eyal, Eyal Organizations: Netflix, Harmony Healthcare, CNBC Locations: Asia, Indonesia, Thailand, India

☆ Denmark Made Home Buying Easier. America Should Follow Its Lead.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-29 | by ( James Rodriguez | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

When mortgage rates shoot up, as they did over the past two years, many would-be sellers decide they don't want to move after all. AdvertisementAs the Federal Reserve began pushing up borrowing rates in the spring of 2022, hoping to reel in rising inflation, mortgage rates went vertical. So far, this system of pooling together mortgage bonds and selling them to investors is pretty close to the American way of doing things. When US homeowners pay off their mortgages, they have only one option: pony up the amount left on the loan. That's not just good for buyers or sellers or mortgage loan officers — it's good for everyone.

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☆ A new crop of startups wants to help solve loneliness among millennials and Gen Z. Here's how they're connecting strangers and making money.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-10 | by ( Lauren Johnson | Sydney Bradley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Plus, the pandemic and the shift to working from home have made millennials and Gen Z lonelier than ever, thanks in part to doomscrolling. "I believe the conventional 'make friends' apps too closely mimic the dating model, which can feel awkward and high-pressure for making friends," he said. The group hosts "reading parties" at bars and event spaces with the goal of helping people connect through reading. Dinner With Friends, a group that throws dinner parties, has worked on sponsored events with brands like Bumble and Geneva. Dinner With Friends founder Anita Michaud said brands typically either sponsor entire dinners or provide products — like canned cocktails — for the dinner parties.

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☆ Ambition Got Me My Dream Job. Then It Nearly Killed Me.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-14 | by ( Tanmoy Goswami | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

It's still not easy for me to admit it, but that night I used my pain to feed my professional ambition. In a previous job, burnout nearly killed me, and I vowed to never let ambition swallow me again. There's a fine line between the motivation needed to build a successful career and the uncontrolled ambition that ends in burnout. As I unpacked this predicament in therapy, I began to wonder: How did ambition become such a force in our world? In the ancient world, ambition was seen as a curse.

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☆ I started a list of books to read and it grew to over 500. I felt trapped by it, and when it got lost, I felt free again.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-25 | by ( Lisa Bubert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

In 2013, I made a seemingly simple decision: I started a list of books I wanted to read. AdvertisementI couldn't do that because if I threw away the book list, I would have to make a conscious choice. When I lost my book list, I actually felt freeTwo months ago, I reorganized my cloud account where the list was kept. Ever since my therapist had introduced the idea of throwing the list away, I had fantasized about the moment but never actually committed to it. Thus, I declare this the year of re-reading books I've loved in the past without worrying that I'm not spending my time reading something new.

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☆ Opinion | Free Campaign Advice for Joe Biden
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-14 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To the Editor:Re “Biden Gambles on Trump Fear and Star Clout” (front page, Jan. 30):I was a bit dismayed by your article about Joe Biden’s apparent campaign plan to run on basically just not being Donald Trump. Courting Taylor Swift and other celebrities is fine and all, Joe, but please don’t make yourself simply the lesser of two evils. If Democrats can win the House and retain the Senate, you’re a lame duck who can do whatever you want. Tell us you’ll make sure our kids aren’t doomed to demoralization, deforestation and doomscrolling. Tell us that Detroit Joe matters as much as D.C. Joe.

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☆ I was in a reading slump for years, but treating my phone like an e-reader changed the game
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Maria Noyen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

When travel circumstances forced me to buy a book on my phone, the game changed. AdvertisementApple Books tracks your reading streaks and lets you input a reading goal. Treating my phone like an e-reader has also made it less of a distractionReading on an iPhone isn't perfect by any means. For the first time in a long time, I'm reading books from front to back again. My phone is not just a phone anymore — it's a library.

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☆ You're not imagining it — it feels damn near impossible to get into top colleges right now
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-10 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. AdvertisementEven students who have gone megaviral for acceptance videos showing they got into multiple Ivy League schools called social media a major stressor. Schools are rethinking their admissions processes amid a glut of applicantsAn exponential increase in applications has benefited schools financially and reputationally. "A lot of these schools are making so much money from these application fees, which are $80, $90," Rim said. AdvertisementAnd as the game gets more and more competitive year after year, students know they must rise to untold challenges.

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☆ Americans are doom saving, too
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-01 | by ( Dominick Reuter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

While some are "doom spending" — mindlessly spending money — others are looking for ways to save. <ore than a quarter of Americans say they're turning to the financial equivalent — doom spending — to quell their concerns. If the antidote to "doomscrolling" is putting down the phone, then the opposite of "doom spending" might well be putting down the credit card in favor of "doom saving." AdvertisementAnd while the Intuit report that coined the "doom spending" neologism noted that a troubling 22% of Americans have no savings at all. AdvertisementSpending on discounts and deals is, of course, not saving — it's still spending — but the mindset of "doom saving" is about responding to uncertainty by trying to conserve a finite resource.

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☆ Shoppers are worried about the economy so they're 'doom spending' to make themselves feel better
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

'Doom spending' is the idea of spending money to cope with stress about the economy or foreign affairs. More than a quarter of Americans are "doom spending," according to a report from Intuit Credit Karma. Strong consumer spending has helped prop up the economy in the past several months. The rise of mobile shopping has also made doom spending almost as easy as doomscrolling. AdvertisementThe phenomenon is most prevalent among younger generations, with 35% of Gen Zers, and 43% of millennials admitting to doom spending.

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☆ TikTok and Instagram users would be willing to pay for everyone to get off social media, research finds
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Many users would ditch social media in exchange for being paid a small fee, a study found. What if there was an option where everyone else they knew would stop using social media, too? AdvertisementAdvertisementThe researchers found that users would be willing to pay $28 and $10 "to have others, including themselves, deactivate TikTok and Instagram, respectively." Social media remains a key resource for people looking for a convenient way to keep on top of updates from friends, colleagues, and current affairs. AdvertisementAdvertisementThat said, the results underscore a view that people feel compelled to use social media despite how awful it can make them feel.

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☆ Of all the apps that have tried to be the Twitter Killer, Meta's Threads is probably the one we're all going to start using
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Mark Zuckerberg's Threads is probably the app best poised to take down Elon Musk's Twitter. The door's now open for two billion people to start threading their thoughts in a place that's not Twitter. Meta's slated to debut its new rival to Twitter — an app called Threads — on July 6. Threads' main advantage is probably the number of people already using Instagram, or a reported two billion monthly active users in 2021. Meta's chief product officer, Chris Cox, has called Threads a response to creators and public figures who wanted a platform that's "sanely run."

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☆ 'Jeopardy' champ Amy Schneider's new favorite career tip: It 'kind of blew my mind'
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-31 | by ( Jennifer Liu | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

The advice "kind of blew my mind," Schneider says. The simple change shifted how Schneider's friend felt about herself and how other people interacted with her. That mission statement can keep you on track with projects and goals you've set out for yourself. It can also help to stop doomscrolling and seek out stories of achievements within the trans community, Schneider adds. Check out:Meet 6 women changing the world in 2023Amy Schneider is the first woman to win $1 million on 'Jeopardy!'

☆ I've made $6,400 selling bracelets on Etsy after a New Year's resolution to make them. Here's how I turned the goal into a lucrative side hustle.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-03 | by ( Ella Hopkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Hannah Britt's New Year's resolution was to cut down on her screen time by making bracelets. She launched her business, ByHannahLondon, on Etsy in January and has sold more than 500 bracelets. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Hannah Britt, a 32-year-old from London, about her side hustle selling bracelets. For my New Year's resolution, I decided to cut down my screen time by making bracelets. People also request random words you wouldn't find in a store, like made-up words, swear words, and nicknames.

☆ Midterm elections live updates: Pennsylvania races, New Hampshire Senate race too early to call
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Brandy Zadrozny | Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Sahil-Kapur-Headshot.Jpg | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +109 min

Share this -Link copiedWisconsin Senate and governor's races too early to call It is too early to call the Senate and gubernatorial races in Wisconsin, according to NBC News. Share this -Link copiedNew Hampshire Senate race too early to call The Senate race in New Hampshire is too early to call, according to NBC News. Share this -Link copiedPennsylvania Senate and governor races are too early to call After polls closed at 8 p.m. While Maricopa County election officials initially categorized the problem as a “hiccup,” it took hours before a solution was identified early Tuesday afternoon. In Columbus County, election officials allegedly were harassed by an “observer following one-stop workers” and photographing or filming the workers, it said.

☆ How silencing the 'chatter' in your head can make you a better leader, according to a professor
▼ + stars: | 2021-02-25 | by ( Julie Peck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

He provides tools for turning negative chatter into something positive to help you regain control. This article is part of a series called "Leaders by Day," which takes a look at how prominent business leaders are tackling various challenges in today's economy. "I'll do three or four things when I experience chatter over the pandemic, and it's the combination of those things that often helps me," he said. Uncertainty and a lack of control are key ingredients that fuel chatter, Kross said. Create order in your environment"When we experience chatter, we often feel as if we are losing control.

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