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Hello and welcome back to Control or Delete. This is a short snippet of my new audiobook

disconnected, How to Stay Human in an Online World, published by Hodder and Stouten,

on January the 13th, 2022. I'm really excited about this book coming out. It's looking at our

relationship with social media, how a lot of us are rethinking our relationship with our phones,

and a lot of us are wanting to log off or at least create some distance to get some of our time

back and get away from the glazed-over doom scroll. And after a year or more of reduced physical

contact, this has made us more dependent on our phones and screens more than ever before.

And according to research anecdotes in the book, our focus on community and real connection has

been sent off course, and we're becoming more aware of our time being robbed, how our data has

made us a product to be sold. And so really the book is looking at where do we go from here,

and how can we get back on track. And in the book, I offer lots of tangible tips and advice and

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