My business partner and I are both doom-scrolling news and social media during work hours and our productivity has tanked but we keep talking about current events instead of addressing that we're both using the internet to avoid dealing with stress about our company. We're enabling each other's avoidance and our business is suffering.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people using shared digital distraction to avoid confronting deeper anxieties about their shared enterprise.
“Where Are You with Internet addiction and problematic use?”
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