Five Ways Your Facebook Habit Actually Changes Your Brain

Aside from changing how you feel after seeing all your Facebook "friends'" real opinions.

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Like your body, your brain adapts to the tasks it does most often. Here’s how your brain will change if those tasks are mostly social media use. Maybe some day they’ll figure out how to change our brains to not hate every new Facebook layout update.

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