My Candid Conversations with Extremely Online Folks Who Suffer From Internet Broken Brain

Ashley Feinberg, Krang T. Nelson, and more weigh in on content addiction. If you have trouble reading this message, view it in a browser.   Style     Culture     Politics Download our App!     My Candid Conversations with Extremely Online Folks Who Suffer From Internet Broken Brain   Twitter broke my brain. I'm not alone. New research from Pew found that 77 percent of Americans go online daily, but 26 percent claimed to be online "almost constantly." Reading this brought me back to one day a few months ago, when I went outside for a cigarette, bringing my phone and cocktail with me. After a couple minutes of scrolling, whatever timer in my brain that governs my subconscious behavior went off, and I got up to go back inside, still holding an unlit cigarette in my hand. My addiction to Twitter had overridden my addiction to nicotine. That's probably not good! I thought. Naturally, I tweeted about it. Much like psychologists are supposed to avoid armchair diagnoses, it's unethical to project Internet Broken Brain onto someone you don't know personally, but ... it is similar to the scumbag's sixth sense. A real scumbag can parachute into any town or any situation and easily sniff out the guy holding drugs. I spent last week wandering around the internet in search of, well, people like me. They weren't hard to find. They're right in our face every minute of the day. READ MORE From Cooking Steaks to Interviewing the President: The Evolution of Anthony Bourdain   The man behind Kitchen Confidential, Parts Unknown, and the long line outside that restaurant you've been meaning to try has been flexing his influence for nearly two decades.   READ MORE Peppermint Is Taking on a New Fight for the Trans Community   "You would think the LGBT+ community is very open-minded, but unfortunately, there's discrimination."   READ MORE Facebook and Democracy Aren't Compatible. Here's How to Fix That.   We shouldn't kill Facebook, but we can make demands.   READ MORE Every Wes Anderson Movie, Ranked Worst to Best   It's a difficult task for a director who doesn't have a bad movie.   READ MORE Questlove Wants You to Start Listening—I Mean Really Listening—Again   The musician, writer, and entrepreneur explains his new guide to living creatively and how no pursuit is really normal.   READ MORE Style News Politics Culture   Unsubscribe • Privacy Policy   esquire.com ©2018 Hearst Communications Inc. All Rights Reserved. Hearst Email Privacy, 300 W 57th St., Fl. 19 (sta 1-1), New York, NY 10019