Check your internet usage. Do you check your e-mail compulsively? Watch lots of videos? Switch frequently among multiple Internet applications–from games to file downloads to chat rooms? Yep, you’re depressed, all right.
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When you watch the "Arab Spring" protestors on the nightly news, there’s something you should know: our own government plans to monitor activity on social networks in order to get hints of political unrest. Facebook and Twitter each have close to a billion users, many of whom post daily updates on their thoughts and feelings. This amounts to self-surveillance–saving covert agencies the trouble and expense of physically spying on us.
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Is email evil? People are doing so much texting that they’re getting arthritis in their thumbs. One French internet executive has banned internal email, starting in 2014.

In BBC News, Tom Chatfield quotes author Kevin Kelly as saying that the idea of "wanting is not just for humans. Your dog wants to play Frisbee. Your cat wants to be scratched, Birds want mates. Worms want moisture. Bacteria want food." And, he says, email wants your time and thought, as it demands a reply.
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Online daters intent on fudging their personal information have a big advantage: most people are terrible at identifying a liar. But new research is turning the tables on deceivers, using their own words.

Communications expert Catalina Toma says, "Generally, people don’t want to admit they’ve lied, but we don’t have to rely on the liars to tell us about their lies." Using personal descriptions written for Internet dating profiles, Toma and researcher Jeffrey Hancock have identified clues that reveal that the author was being deceptive.
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