smop installs all your contacts helps you navigate through that hot new restaurant and even. reminds you of your cousin's birthday wait where was i. phones making osama our topic today on ship. the well being tells me i received eighty four notifications yesterday and spent exactly two hours on my smartphone which i am gloc that seventy seven times if i hadn't the activated push notifications my phone would be every minute also as apps for my attention that can be. well cool video but it can also be stressful. and get released with every notification increases muscle stands up it's no laughing matter. favre push notifications they want to maximize the amount of time we spend on this because the more we use those apps the more information on us they can collect which they can monetize for advertising you're a scientist heading back from the gritty university frankford explains what effects this has on our brains. this is where distraction happens when i concentrate on one task these brain regions are active. all sensory stimuli are filtered out by this region the so-called d.m