Digital Addiction: How Technology Keeps Us Hooked

A solution could be built into the apps and social media we use, and 'digital literacy' could help as well

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The World Health Organization is set to include “gaming disorder,” the inability to stop gaming, into the International Classification of Diseases.

By doing so, the WHO is recognising the serious and growing problem of digital addiction. The problem has also been acknowledged by Google, which recently announced that it will begin focusing on “Digital wellbeing.”