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The following articles cover issues with our current social media ecosystem.

• The Humane-Tech Reading List: A compilation of many great articles, books, and thought leaders

• I quit Instagram and Facebook and it made me a lot happier — and that’s a big problem for social media companies - CNBC health-tech reporter Christina Farr took a break from social media after realizing that she spent far more time on Instagram than she realized

• A Decade After the iPhone, There’s Still No Good Smartphone for Kids

• This Video Will Make You Angry - A thought provoking perspective on how ideas spread over social media

• “Embarrassing And Damaging” Zuckerberg IMs Confirmed By Zuckerberg, The New Yorker

• Smartphone addiction could be changing your brain

• Putting a Finger on Our Phone Obsession

• You can’t handle the truth about facebook ads, new Harvard study shows

• Teens Addicted to Social Media

• After Cambridge Analytica, Privacy Experts Get to Say ‘I Told You So’

• Mark Zuckerberg wants his kids off Facebook — but yours are fair game

• WhatsApp CEO quits amid Facebook data scandal

• I hope Google won’t nag me about my digital wellbeing

• A Flaw-By-Flaw Guide to Facebooks New GDPR Privacy Changes

• Our minds can be hijacked’: the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia

• Facebook reveals news feed experiment to control emotions