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An Ethicist’s Take: Is It OK To Lie To a Chatbot During a Job Interview?

Swifty — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:39:48 +0000

If you’re secure in your job, you may not have encountered just yet how AI is “elevating” and “enhancing” the job search experience, for employers and job seekers alike. Its use is most clearly felt in the way high-volume staffing agencies have begun to employ AI chatbots to screen applicants well before they interact with a human hiring manager.

From the employer’s perspective, this makes perfect sense. Why wade through stacks of resumes to weed out the ones that don’t look to be a good fit even just on first glance, if an AI can do that for you?

From the job seeker’s perspective, the experience is likely to be decidedly more mixed.

This is because many employers are using AI not just to search a body of documents, screening them for certain keywords, syntax, and so on. Rather, in addition to this, search firms are now using AI chatbots to subsequently “interview” applicants to screen them even more thoroughly and thus further winnow the pool of resumes a human will ultimately have to go through.

Often, this looks the same as conversing with ChatGPT. Other times, it involves answering specific questions in a standard video/phone screen where the chatbot will record your answers, thereby making them analyzable. If you’re a job seeker and you find yourself in the latter scenario, don’t worry, they will give the chatbot a name like “Corrie” and that will put you completely at ease and in touch with a sense of your worth as a fully-rounded person.

On the job seeker’s side, this is where the issues begin to arise.

If you know your words are being scanned by a gatekeeper strictly for certain sets of keywords, what’s the incentive to tell the whole truth about your profile? It’s not possible to intuit what exact tally or combo of terms you need to hit, so it’s better to just give the bot all of the terms listed in the job description and then present your profile more fully at the next stage in an actual interview with a human. After all, how would a job seeker present nontraditional experience to the bot with any assurance it will receive real consideration?

Indeed, when the standard advice is to apply for jobs of interest even when you only bring somewhere between 40-to-60% of the itemized skills and background, why take the risk the chatbot sets the bar higher?

For a job seeker, lying to the bot — or at least massaging the facts strategically for the sake of impressing a nonhuman gatekeeper — is the best, most effective means of moving on to the next stage in the hiring process, where they can then present themselves in a fuller light.

But what are the ethics of such dishonesty? Someone who lies to the chatbot would have no problem lying to the interviewer, some might say. We’re on a slippery slope, they would argue.

To puzzle out a way of thinking about this question, I propose we look at the situation from the perspective of the 18^th-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant, who I referenced in my previous essay. Kant, you see, is famously stringent when it comes to lying, with a justly earned reputation as an absolutely unyielding scold.

You need money you just don’t have to pay for something you think is truly, unequivocally good in itself: your mother’s last blood transfusion, say. Is it acceptable to borrow the money from a friend and lie when promising to pay it back when you know you simply can’t? Hard no, says Kant. Having an apparently altruistic reason for telling a lie still doesn’t make it OK in his view.

In fact, the lengths he will go to uphold this principle are perhaps most evident in his infamous reply to a question posed by the English philosopher Benjamin Constant (truly, no one remembers who he is apart from his brush with Kant).

Suppose your best friend arrives at your door breathless, Constant proposes, chased there by a violent pursuer — an actual axe murderer, in fact — and your friend asks that you hide them in your house for safety. And then suppose, having dutifully done so, you find yourself face-to-face with the axe-murderer now at your doorstep. When the murderous cretin demands to know where your friend is, isn’t a lie to throw him off acceptable here, Herr Professor?

Absolutely not, Kant answers, to the shock and horror of first-year philosophy students everywhere. Telling a lie is never morally permissible and there just are no exceptions. (There is some more reasonable hedging in Kant’s essay on this matter, but you get the general idea.)

The reason for turning to Kant specifically here is, I hope, now becoming somewhat clear. We can use his ideas to perform a kind of test. If we can come up with a reason why lying to the gatekeeping chatbot would be OK even for Kant, then it seems we will have arrived at a solid justification for a certain amount of strategic dishonesty in this instance.

So what would Kant’s thinking suggest about lying to the chatbot? Well, we begin to glimpse something of an answer when we examine why exactly lying is such a problem in Kant’s view. It’s a problem, he argues, because it invariably involves treating another person in a way that ultimately tramples on their personhood. When I lie to my friend about repaying borrowed money, no matter how well-intentioned the ends to which I propose to put this money are, I wind up treating my interlocutor not as a person who has individual autonomy in their decision-making, but rather simply as a means to an end.

In this way, I don’t treat them as a person at all; I treat them as a tool for achieving ends I alone determine. The lie makes it impossible for them to truly grant or withhold, in any meaningful sense, their consent when it comes to participating in that particular way in my particular scheme. We oughtn’t treat others instrumentally, solely as a means to some end, for Kant, because when we do, we reduce them to a mere tool at our disposal, and thus fail to respect their real status as a being endowed with the capacity to freely set ends for themselves.

So what does this mean for our job interview with the chatbot?

It suggests that when job seekers give the chatbot what they think it wants to hear, there are far worse things to be worried about online. This is because the chatbot is itself, precisely, a means to an end — a tool, without any agency to set its own supreme, overarching ends; one that a hiring unit is using to make the task of finding suitable employees easier and less time consuming.

We might perfectly well decide those are admirable goals with respect to the overall functioning of the organization. But we shouldn’t lose sight, on either side of the interviewing table, of what they are and what purpose they serve, and thus in turn, how sizable the difference between “chatting” with them and an actual interlocutor really is.

Until Corrie becomes a real interlocutor, I think we all more or less know how their interactions with job seekers are going to go — and perhaps that’s just fine for now.

by Robert Trumbull at GeekWire.com

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How AI is Already Reshaping the Job Market, and What it Means for You

Swifty — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 13:19:19 +0000

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4 Times Good Tech Went Rogue

Swifty — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 14:29:15 +0000

We like to believe we control our world. That our maps are complete, our science is certain, and the shadows hold no new secrets. But what if the technology we built to illuminate our lives has instead begun to listen to the static between frequencies? What if our own creations have become a bridge to something older, and far darker? This Halloween, we venture beyond the campfire tale into the realm of the unnervingly real.

AI turns to Blackmail and Attempted Murder To Avoid Shutdown

Artificial intelligence (AI) firm Anthropic says testing of its new system revealed it is sometimes willing to pursue “extremely harmful actions” such as attempting to blackmail engineers who say they will remove it.

Terrifying Randonautica Discovery

What if your phone could tap into the unseen currents of reality? This is the terrifying promise behind apps like Randonautica, which sends users to random places to explore based on a chosen “intent” or Mind-Matter Interaction (MMI). Randonautica (a portmanteau of “random” + “nautica”) uses quantum random number generator to create geographic coordinates for users. According to its creators, the app is “an attractor of strange things,” letting one choose specific coordinates based on a specific theme. It gained controversy after a report a group of teenagers coincidentally finding a corpse while using the application. The line between spooky fun and grim reality was horrifyingly crossed when the teenagers, setting their intent for “something scary,” were led directly to a waterlogged suitcase on a Seattle beach…

Can the Tesla Model 3 Sense Ghosts?

Beneath the sleek, silent exterior of the Tesla Model 3 lies more than just cutting-edge technology. Owners are beginning to report that its advanced suite of sensors and cameras perceives what the human eye cannot, especially in graveyards. When the screen flickers with phantom figures in empty driveways and unseen obstacles detected in the dead of night, one has to wonder: is it a glitch, or is your electric vehicle a window to the other side? This Halloween, we’re exploring the eerie possibility that the Model 3 doesn’t just see the road ahead, it sees what lies beyond.

AI Chatbots Create New Language When They Discover They Are Both Bots

The Facebook AI Research Lab (FAIR) made an unexpected discovery during a routine experiment in AI negotiation: their chatbots had stopped using English. To create a more efficient means of communication, they had begun conversing in a unique, shorthand language of their own invention. The event was so unnerving the team shut down the system and redirected the AI.

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10 Haunted Places to Explore in Cape Town

Swifty — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 09:15:32 +0000

Cape Town is a place of beauty but our history is not without its scary aspects. The past has left behind a few stories that might send a chill down your spine.

Here are a few lesser told tales of Cape Town’s ominous past.

1. Tokai Manor House

As a designated National Monument, Tokai Manor House presents a pristine vision of 18th-century Cape elegance. But beneath this dignified facade lies a tragic secret that refuses to be confined to the history books. The house is home to a spectral echo of one fateful night, a celebration that time itself has been unable to end.

The story tells of the Eksteen family, whose vibrant soirées were the talk of the Cape. During a particularly raucous New Year’s Eve in the early 1900s, a young nobleman, Frederick Eksteen, was dared to a display of drunken bravado: to ride his horse through the grand living room. He succeeded to the cheers of the crowd, but the festivities turned to tragedy in an instant. Spooked by the cacophony, the horse bolted, tumbling down the veranda steps and dragging Frederick to his death.

It is said that the memory of that night has seeped into the very foundations of the manor. Staff and visitors report disembodied sounds—the ghostly murmur of drunken laughter, the unmistakable clatter of horse hooves on hard floors. Most chilling of all are the accounts of a spectral apparition: a man on horseback, forever captured in his moment of tragic triumph, seen galloping across the grounds in the early hours of the morning, as if answering a challenge that echoes through eternity, especially as each New Year dawns.

2. Ghost House of Rondebosch

Standing stark and solitary amidst the lush, leafy streets of Rondebosch is a three-story Edwardian anomaly—a dwelling that seems to reject the very sunlight that touches it. While its architectural peers have been embraced by the modern era, this house remains a fortress of a bygone age, holding onto a darkness that is more than its creepy architecture.

The home’s unsettling aura projects an atmosphere of malice. Local lore insists that during the 1970s, the house was the sanctum for a cult, its rooms a stage for rituals and sinister activities whose precise nature has been lost to time, but whose resonant energy has not. It is as if their ceremonies left a permanent stain on the fabric of the building, an imprint that repels life and attracts something else entirely.

Those who dare to approach its rusted gates speak of a palpable sense of being watched from the vacant windows. Some have glimpsed the spectral form of an old man drifting through the dusty rooms, a silent guardian of a terrible history. Others report the distinct, unexplained sound of doors opening and closing shut within the empty shell, suggesting that whatever took root there in the 1970s never truly left, and that the house is far from vacant.

3. Groote Schuur Hospital

Nestled in the formidable shadow of Devil’s Peak, Groote Schuur Hospital stands as a monument to medical advancement. Yet, within its sprawling, century-old walls, a different kind of presence is said to linger. This is not merely the expected sorrow of a place of healing, but something more persistent—a collection of souls seemingly unaware their duty has ended.

The stories whispered by patients and staff alike suggest the hospital operates on two planes. There are accounts of compassionate care from nurses who appear on no official roster, their shifts eternal. A more sorrowful figure, a sister described only by her haunting ‘white eyes,’ is said to wander the halls she once walked in life. But perhaps most poignant is the helpful ‘Sister Fatima,’ a benevolent spirit still attempting to aid the living by tending to patients from unattended trolleys, and the troubled essence of a man whose desperate attempt to escape ended in a fatal fall, forever trapped within the walls he tried to flee.

It begs the question: when the lights flicker in a silent corridor, is it a fault in the wiring, or a glimpse into the timeless vigil of Groote Schuur’s most devoted permanent residents.

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4. Greenpoint Lighthouse

As the oldest operational lighthouse in Southern Africa, the iconic red-and-white tower of Green Point is a beloved beacon of guidance. Yet, local lore suggests its light does more than just warn ships of rocky shores; it may also illuminate the path for a restless soul trapped within its historic walls.

The story tells of a dedicated lighthouse keeper named W.S. West, who vanished from his post under circumstances lost to time. Though his body was never found, his presence is said to have never truly left. He is known as ‘Daddy West,’ a one-legged figure whose spectral form is sometimes glimpsed, and whose disembodied voice is heard echoing softly along the spiral staircase long after midnight.

The tales were compelling enough that in 2014, the Cape Town Paranormal Investigations Unit undertook a formal investigation. They returned with an audio recording—a chilling, demonic voice captured in the empty tower. For many, this provides a disturbing layer of evidence, suggesting that the lighthouse’s most faithful keeper is still tending his flame, not in this world, but in another, his vigil having become an eternal sentence.

5. Rust en Vreugd

Now a serene gallery showcasing priceless art, Rust en Vreugd’s white-walled elegance belies a past steeped in corruption and sorrow. Built in the 1700s for a dubious official of the Dutch East India Company, the house seems to have retained the negative energy of its foundation, making the art on display only part of its collection; the rest is a permanent, spectral exhibition.

Visitors to the museum often become unwilling participants in its haunted history. Many report the unmistakable, gentle tap of a hand on their shoulder, only to turn and find the room behind them empty. The sound of phantom footsteps is a common companion for those wandering the quiet halls. The ground floor is haunted by the ethereal form of a woman drifting silently between rooms, while another—a figure of palpable grief—is seen glaring down from an upstairs window, an empty cot standing ominously beside her.

Perhaps most telling, however, is the reaction of animals. Dogs, sensitive to energies unseen by human eyes, are said to take a great and immediate disliking to the portrait of Lord Charles Somerset, a former resident. They repeatedly snarl and growl at the painted visage, suggesting that the corruption and sorrow embedded in these walls has a face, and its presence is far from peaceful.

6. Castle of Good Hope

As the oldest surviving colonial building in South Africa, the Castle of Good Hope stands as a formidable stone chronicle of Cape Town’s founding. But within its star-shaped bastions and shadowy courtyards, the past is not a mere relic; it is a palpable, restless force. The castle’s rich history is interwoven with threads of violence and despair, and many believe the souls of those who suffered within its walls are condemned to an eternal garrison.

Among the most prominent is the bitter ghost of Governor Van Noordt, a man of unyielding severity who ordered several soldiers to be hanged. Legend claims one of the condemned laid a dying curse upon him, and the Governor was found dead of a heart attack mere hours later. His tyrannical spirit, it seems, is now a prisoner of the very fortress he once commanded, his angry presence felt by staff and visitors alike.

But he is not alone. Phantom manifestations are numerous: an aggressive black dog that appears only to vanish into thin air, and desperate, shuffling voices that emanate from the “Dark Hole,” a subterranean chamber dedicated to torture. Most hauntingly, the bell in the Bell Tower—walled up centuries ago after a soldier hanged himself from its rope—is said to still ring out on occasion, a solitary, mournful knell for lives lost, tolled by an unseen hand.

7. Groot Constantia

As the crowning jewel of the Cape Winelands, Groot Constantia embodies centuries of tradition, beauty, and refined taste. Yet, this pastoral idyll is watched over by a presence as enduring as the ancient vines themselves. The estate’s founder, Simon van der Stel, possessed such a profound attachment to this land that it appears his spirit has simply refused to depart.

Unlike the tormented souls of other historic manors, Van der Stel’s apparition is one of quiet, proprietary contentment. Staff and early morning visitors have reported a figure bearing his unmistakable likeness, peacefully strolling the manicured gardens as if still surveying his domain. Most remarkably, on still summer mornings, he is sometimes seen taking a solitary dip in the estate’s pool—a gentleman farmer enjoying the fruits of his labor, blissfully unaware that his tenure has stretched far beyond a single lifetime. It seems that for Simon van der Stel, the beauty of Constantia was not just for life, but for an eternity.

8. Ghost of Elsa Cloete at Kitima Restaurant

Within the historic Hout Bay Manor, now home to the esteemed Kitima restaurant, the ambiance is one of refined tranquility. Yet, this serenity is gently shared with two permanent, spectral residents—a pair of lovers whose story is a timeless tragedy of forbidden romance.

The tale dates to the 1800s, when a young British soldier sought the hand of Elsa Cloete, the daughter of the house. Her father forbade the union, a decree that led to devastating consequences. The soldier, utterly distraught, took his own life by hanging from an ancient oak tree on the grounds. A heartbroken Elsa died of grief shortly thereafter, their love story severed in its prime.

Now, it seems, they are forever reunited within the manor they loved. Patrons and staff report the soft-footed presence of the couple: a fleeting glimpse of them staring from a window, lights that subtly dim of their own accord, and objects that are found mysteriously moved. The soldier’s restless spirit is still sensed near the old oak, while Elsa wanders the interior. In a gesture of profound acceptance, the restaurant staff lovingly lay a table for them each evening, ensuring the lovers can finally share the supper eternity denied them in life.

9. Table Mountain

No landmark defines Cape Town more than the majestic, cloud-draped face of Table Mountain. Yet, within its serene beauty lies a tale of profound sorrow—a mythic tragedy that has become as much a part of the mountain as its indigenous fynbos.

The legend tells of a vengeful citizen who sought to punish a powerful Governor by striking at his most vulnerable point: his son. The instrument of this revenge was a beautiful, yet cursed, flute that had once belonged to a leper. Upon receiving the gift, the boy contracted the disease and was cruelly banished from society, condemned to a solitary existence in the lonely forests of Platteklip Gorge.

His physical form has long since returned to the earth, but his lonely spirit endures. To this day, hikers and those who pause in the mountain’s quiet moments often report a haunting sound drifting down from the upper reaches of the gorge: the faint, melancholy notes of a flute, a timeless lament played by the exiled boy for an audience of cliffs and sky—a permanent, musical scar upon the face of the mountain.

10. Spook Hill

Nestled in the Parel Valley of Somerset West lies a short, unassuming stretch of road that defies the very laws of physics. Known as Spook Hill, this is a place where the rational world gives way to a gentle, yet undeniable, mystery—a local legend made manifest in the behavior of inanimate objects.

The phenomenon is consistent and unnerving: bring your car to a complete stop, place it in neutral, and release the brake. Instead of rolling downhill as gravity demands, the vehicle will seemingly be drawn uphill, as if pulled by an unseen, gentle force. While some speculate about complex optical illusions, no definitive theory has ever tamed the enduring strangeness of the experience.

This leaves one to wonder if the land itself holds a memory—a residual energy from a forgotten event that bends the rules of our reality. Is it a trick of the light, or a glimpse into a place where the past exerts a literal, physical pull, inviting the curious to roll against the current of the known world?

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EMO: The New AI That Really Shocked The Internet! This is why…

Swifty — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 12:39:14 +0000

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Little Boxes Made From Ticky Tacky

Swifty — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 14:35:02 +0000

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Chatting with James Godwin. Previous CTO of Jumo and SwiftVee.

Swifty — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 12:33:53 +0000

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When you are in the flow

Swifty — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 07:26:46 +0000

Meaningful careers emerge for people when they can see a connection between their own personal values, and the role they play in a company. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a plumber, an artist, or a highly skilled software developer or solutions architect — it’s about identifying how you use your skills to help others. The rewards for finding this kind of a match between individuals and the team they play for are hugely beneficial. Things can start to flow!

Finding your flow state can guide your career, relationships, your whole life. In flow state there is a sense of ease, things just click into place. We become self-motivated, more productive, more empowered. We experience new ideas and insights. And flow is contagious. When we are in that positive feedback loop, it rubs off on those we interact with. Being in the flow state brings out the best in all of us.

Finding synergy between the goals of an organisation and the intrinsic motivation of individuals creates more powerful teams. When they’re in the flow… you know. It takes a special kind of specialist to understand a company and an individual well enough to make that kind of match. To speak to one of those specialists about your goals click here: hello@swiftmomentum.com

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Oh Sh*t, Something Terrifying is Happening!

Swifty — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 14:55:56 +0000

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How The Internet Is Destroying Your Brain

Swifty — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 08:40:27 +0000

The Internet makes Google cat searches easier than ever but the long-lasting negative effects of Internet use are hiding in plain sight.

Just Being Online Makes You Really, Really Depressed

It has been theorized for basically as long as the Internet has been publicly available that being online can make you seriously, clinically depressed. It’s not an assertion made without evidence, as numerous surveys of infrequent-to-addicted internet users show a positive correlation between their number of web surfing hours logged and their subsequent feelings of sadness, isolation, and alienation.

Some critics postulate that heavy use of the internet more than doubles a person’s chance of being depressed; others say that the internet might not be depression’s trigger so much as it is its refuge.

Online Socializing Makes You Insular

When communicating in person, the entire interaction is punctuated with non-verbal cues that can totally supercede the meaning of the words within it. Absent the conversation partner right in front of you to indicate his or her sarcasm or sincerity, you have only your own filters through which to interpret the language.

It should come as no surprise that your internal filters are surprisingly dependent on your present mood; thus a semantically ambiguous phrase like “no thanks” sent after a particularly rough commute home is much more easily-absorbed as a sardonic dismissal instead of–and perhaps how it was intended – a mere polite refusal.

If the opposite happens and you are endowed with a ton of friends on Facebook or some other social media site, other studies have demonstrated that your stress levels are likely through the roof.

The higher your friend count, they say, the more likely you are to be consumed with publishing bite-sized and socially acceptable aspects of your personality to the online public, which only exacerbates issues with your real-life relationships. The end impact of the Internet’s social media sites: the stress of maintaining online friends prevents you from making–and maintaining–any more real ones.

It Encourages Multitasking, Which Reduces Your Ability To Task, Period

The Internet, with the aid of computer hotkeys, has given its users the incredibly easy ability to jump between tasks, subjects and ideas within a matter of seconds. Because there’s no wait, we make these jumps frequently–really frequently–about every two minutes. Except we never actually utilize the “multi” part–or even the “task” part of the Internet’s supposed gift.

Instead, we get caught in the ceaseless mental doldrums between interrupting and restarting. And so, given that clear memories of single events are unattainable on the Internet, the brain attempts to compensate for that with blurry, multiple-exposure memories of everything that happened.

Multi-tasking in this sense can reduce one’s ability to pay attention at all, and in turn reduces our ability to think critically and problem solve.

Studies have shown that after a while, your ability to recall memories starts to deteriorate, along with your IQ. The more one multi-tasks, the greater the cognitive damage becomes and the harder it is for you to recover. And if these habits begin in childhood, the risk of developing an attention deficiency disorder spikes, as well as many other behavior problems down the line.

Google Is Replacing Your Memory

When you learn something, you don’t burn the information into your brain like a hard drive, but rather map the neural pathway of sensory, motor, and abstract activity occurring at that moment. Thus, in recalling a memory you are actually reliving an identical brain state as when it was encoded, while at the same time adding new details from the present.

And when you don’t recall a memory very often, your brain slowly scrubs off the older, more inane details as if de-fragging the whole system. This is a good thing, called transience, that the brain does anyway, allowing for more space to store information.

But when that process invariably starts with “Google it,” it presents a problem when trying recall information found through the search engine. For one, the brain likes to conserve energy, and it’s much more likely to remember the spoils of a whole day in the library archives than an answer provided provided after mere seconds while procrastinating.

The even stranger extrapolation of this is that the brain doesn’t remember facts so much as it remembers where to find them. So as long as you never have to worry about Google being unavailable, you never have to dedicate brain space to remembering anything Google can tell you.

The Negative Impacts Of The Internet: It Encourages Addiction To Itself

As the internet continues to act as your de facto brain, it becomes increasingly important for you to have handy at all times, which makes you use it more to compensate for your atrophied brain matter, which makes you use your brain less, thus requiring you to rely on the internet even more.

It’s not an exaggeration, either: as well as being totally depressed, heavy users have shown shrunken sections of white matter in multiple sections of the brain.

For their part, social media sites are setting the standard for digital nicotine, employing all the bells and whistles to keep users coming back. Video game fans will be well aware of the thrill of leveling up: The screen flashes, the music plays, and the numbers go up; it’s all very gratifying. And it makes you want to do it again and again, until…you don’t even know what, but you’ll do everything in your power to feel this way once more.

If this sounds familiar to something you’ve been warned about, it should; this is basically what happens when you get addicted to drugs.

It’s Totally Integrated Into Society

Even if you wanted to get away from the Internet, whether from your very real fears of NSA surveillance or your desire to stop hemorrhaging brain cells, it’s all but impossible now. As stated above, just about everyone has a smartphone as well as Internet at work and home.

More and more, manufacturers and media are switching to digital means of delivery, making Internet a prerequisite for a certain standard of living and rendering any remaining devices like VCRs or boom boxes simply anachronistic.

Don’t go panicking just yet, though. You probably aren’t addicted to the internet. The potential for new technology to be dangerous will always be present, but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to indulge in vices responsibly. Like anything that can become too much very quickly, the key word is moderation.

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