technology. A person who is detoxing initially reports feeling a sense of anxiety for all that he or she is missing out on, which seems to abate over time. However, upon returning to their tech-rich world, detoxers find themselves even more buried in the text messages, phone calls, emails, and social media posts that they missed. Given that the average teen sends and receives about 3,200 texts a day, that the average adult gets hundreds of email messages a day, and that most people’s social media feeds are bustling with dozens of daily posts, comments, and photos, returning to the “real” world
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