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title: Falling Down The Rabbit Hole? How social media channels impact your wellbeing and trick you into believing it is the only way of life 
description: Is your social media a ship taking you to new shores or a cave wall? Social media is a channel, nothing more. Feel free to love it, but only for what it actu...
author: Dr Marina Nani (Editor-in-Chief)
date: 2026-07-12T11:00:00.000Z
updated: 2026-07-14T13:23:17.009Z
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region: Global
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Our ancestors painted their cave walls because a wall was what they had. A story carved into that stone travelled no further than the mouth of the cave. We have something they did not: the option to leave the cave. And yet most of us still spend our days at the dock, painting. It is not a moral failing. Nobody wants to feel tethered to a phone and the pull you feel toward it most mornings is not weakness. It is chemistry, deliberately engineered.

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