What happens when you stop feeding the algorithm for seven days? I joined the August social media fast to find out, and discovered just how much life had been waiting beyond the scroll.

Check out what I’ve been up to :)

Being "chronically online" is more than a habit; it’s a physiological state that changes how we feel and think. According to new studies, there is growing cultural shift where being "always on" is starting to look less like being "informed" and more like being a passenger to an algorithm.

For the sophisticated, this lends making us less interesting, to becoming embarrassing even, yikes!