https://tech.newstatesman.com/guest-opinion/facebook-group-fighting-anti-tech-rhetoric > Why do people hate their phones so much? > As an anthropologist specialising in ‘Digital Detoxing,’ I’ve watched years of anti-tech rhetoric play out through over-used riffs: “Facebook friends aren’t real”; “the Internet is like a drug”; or, “back in my day we read a book.”’My research aims to dig deeper into throwaway lines like these to better understand our relationship with modern technology.