SOCIAL_ENGAGEMENT
Social Engagement is the process of engaging in digital activities in a social group. Engaging in social relationships benefits brain health. While it has been long known that social interactions are good for you, digital social engagement is a new indicator of brain health. Recent studies have linked smartphone social engagement with the production of dopamine—the hormone that helps us feel pleasure as part of the brain’s reward system. Here are some examples of smartphone social interactions:
Text messaging
Checking social media (e.g. Facebook, Instagram etc.)
Playing multi-player smartphone games
Other ways we use our smartphones like watching videos, reading news articles, and playing single-player games do not count as social interactions. The level of digital social engagement helps us to probe brain activity (synthesis of dopamine) which consequently helps us understand more about brain health.
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