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What's your opinion?

I heard that more than 80% of Americans check their devices within 10 minutes of waking. Before they brush their teeth. Before they speak to their spouse. Before they're even fully conscious. The phone. And it gets worse. The average person unlocks their phone over 200 times a day. Surveys show over 70% of people respond to a notification within five minutes. No matter what they're doing. You can think of this as Digital Pavlovian conditioning. Remember the experiment? Pavlov rang a bell every time he fed his dogs. Eventually, the dogs salivated at the sound of the bell.. Even when no food came. They'd been conditioning. Their brains had linked the sound to the reward. And now? Every ping, every buzz, every notification... Releases dopamine in your brain. The same chemical that makes drugs addictive. Your phone has trained you. And you didn't even know it was happening. Every notification feels urgent. Even when it's not. This isn't an accident. Tech companies hired the best behavioral psychologists in the world. To design systems that turn every ping into an irresistible command. And it worked. Now your phone controls when you look, when you respond, when you feel that little hit of reward. You think you're checking your phone because you want to. But you're checking because you've been trained to. Like Pavlov's dog. Except the bell is in your pocket. And it never stops ringing. What do you think?

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