ExclusiveInternet addiction harms eye and ear health by blocking connection to reality

Tiffany Brannan takes a look at what can happen to a person who trades the real world for a digital one. Recent statistics show that Americans spend a startling amount of time staring at screens, absorbing media, and otherwise lost in a virtual world. Rather than making people more connected to each other, it has led to loneliness, isolation, and depression. This is all because the latest technology is a replacement for the pleasures of real life.

Two articles in the Mind & Body section of The Epoch Times talk about the impact digital media consumption can have on health and general wellbeing. One talks about the negative effects of noise-cancelling, wireless headphones, and the other describes how the greatest means of bonding with other human beings is lost when we replace eye contact with staring at a screen. Both these problems stem from blocking out reality with a virtual world. Tiffany Brannan offers some suggestions of how to join the "tech resistance" movement for a more meaningful life.