Tony Reinke Quotes

The Sad Truth Is That Many Of Us Are Addicted To Our Phones Because We Crave Immediate Approval And Affirmation. The Fear We Feel In Our Hearts When We Are Engaged Online Is The Impulse That Drives Our "highly Selective Self-representations." We Want To Be Loved And Accepted By Others, So We Wash Away Our Scars And Defects. When We Put This Scrubbed-down Representation Of Ourselves Online, We Tabulate The Human Approval In A Commodity Index Of Likes And Shares. We Post An Image, Then Watch The Immediate Response. We Refresh. We Watch The Stats Climb-or Stall. We Gauge The Immediate Responses From Friends, Family Members, And Strangers. Did What We Posted Gain The Immediate Approval Of Others? We Know Within Minutes. Even The Promise Of Religious Approval And The Affirmations Of Other Christians Is A Gravitational Pull That Draws Us Toward Our Phones.

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