The girlies ring in the new year by investigating what plagues us all - smartphone addiction. They look into the research surrounding smartphones and social media to answer the important questions: Why are they so addictive and what are they doing to our brains? What would Karl Marx say about digital social capital? And most importantly.. why aren't the teens having sex like they used to? Plus, they reveal the first ever Binchtopia experiment. Support the podcast on Patreon at patreon.com/binchtopia.

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Social Media Fact Sheet

Putting Your Phone Down May Help You Live Longer

Phantom vibrations among undergraduates: Prevalence and associated psychological characteristics

Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?

Panicking About Your Kids' Phones? New Research Says Don't

Taking Away the Phones Won't Solve Our Teenagers' Problems

Smartphone Addiction and Associated Health Outcomes in Adult Populations: A Systematic Review

Social Capital Online: Alienation and Accumulation by Kane X. Faucher (book)

The Screenic Image: Between Verticality and Horizontality, Viewing and Touching, Displaying and Playing

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