How Facebook Broke the World

And the most important skill you’ll ever learn

The moment you become aware of how addicted we all are to social media is like walking in on your parents having sex.

You can never unsee it.

I remember the exact moment I realised social media was having a destructive influence on my life. As I waited for Netflix to load an episode of The Lincoln Lawyer, I found myself on Facebook, because apparently, thirty seconds without a funny video is too much for my social media-addled brain to handle.

Half an hour went by before I looked up at the motionless TV and realised I never even got around to pressing play.

We are simultaneously more connected than we have ever been, and the least connected we ever will be.

The average person spends two hours and twenty-seven minutes on social media per day.

That works out to roughly thirty-eight days a year.

But as technology continues to develop, it will continue to take an even more prominent role in our everyday lives — things are only going to get worse.

When the first cellphone was invented back in 1983, few could have predicted that the technology would go on to change the world, nor that we would become almost entirely…