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experienced physical and psychological symptoms of withdrawal,
similar to what drug addicts experience while trying to go “cold
turkey,” the Telegraph reports.
“Internet addiction opens up
this debate of how much technology is enough? How young is it
okay to start?” says Young.
Children today are using technology from the age of three, according to a recent UK survey,
and the long-term implications of
early exposure to technology could
prove to be significant as they
grow up. Among young adults,
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excessive technology use has been
linked with heightened stress levels, anxiety and depression. But
in the technology-saturated workplace, even adults would do well to
monitor and control their usage.
“These forms of technology are
as addictive as crack. Period. If
you expose yourself to them continuously, they will pull you in the
way a drug would — continuously,
even when you know it’s not serving you well,” Tony Schwartz, CEO
of The Energy Project and author
of The Way We Work Isn’t Working, told The Huffington Post in
July. “If that’s the case, you’ve got
to move in and out of exposing yourself to them.”
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