How social media is changing your brain

Phantom vibration syndrome and 4 other crazy ways social media is changing your brain right now- from ASAP Science.

Here are 5 crazy ways that social media and the internet are affecting your brain right now!
1. Impairment of brain regions similar to drug dependence effecting attention, emotion and decision making

2. Increased multi-tasking online reduced brain's ability to commit information to memory

3. 'Phantom Vibration Syndrome' is a new psychological phenomenon from technology rewiring our nervous system

4. Social media triggers a release of dopamine acting as a physiological reward

5. May create more successful partnerships when initiated online