While society has widely condemned the effects on preteens and teens' natural social maturation of digitally enabled communication, such as texting and messaging, and of social media apps, such as Facebook, Instagram, and SnapChat, these forms of communication are adversely affecting everyone, including adults. This book examines how social media and modern communication methods are isolating users socially, jeopardizing their intellectual habits, and, as a result, decreasing their chances of achieving social and professional success.

The role of habit -- Bored, addicted, or both: how we use social media now -- Attention, emotion, and desire in the age of social media -- Social media and self-control: the vices and virtues of attention -- Does social media interfere with the capacity to make reasoned arguments? -- Exclusive spaces -- Social media and communicative unlearning: learning to forget in communicating -- Prices paid for social media use.