good hygiene habits

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Hygiene is the art of perserving good health through habits.

The thing with hygiene habits is they tend to for naturally, through trial and error (and study).

If some new phenomena, like parasocial relationships arise from a new technological advancement, and we don't have the habits to get us through the unforeseen externalities, then we can be exploited or damaged.

Note that you can be unhealthy in plenty of ways, not just with regards to microbes.

Bad hygiene I've seen in the wild:

Social media overstimulation : Using skinner box methods of keeping people interested, and the ever powerful Maximize time on platform ML tuned in, we create periods where mental health decreases and productivity also decreases (double whammy).

parasocial relationships: Tuning into internet celebrities and streamers can start to lose focus on the content and pull focus on the people. Bad news, because those people aren't really your friends, and you've just put yourself in an exploitable position