A steady stream of similar headlines accuse the Net and its offspring apps, social media sites and online games of addicting us to distraction.

类似的标题接连不断地出现，指责网络及其衍生的应用程序、社交媒体网站和网络游戏让我们分心。

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For a while, I've worried that social networks can be a distraction from real life, can reduce our productivity and potentially warp the way that we understand friendship.

有一阵，我担心社交网络会让我从现实生活中分心，降低效率，还可能扭曲我们对友情的理解。

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Another reason it was hard to notice the danger of this new type of distraction was that social customs hadn't yet caught up with it.

人们没有意识到这种危险的另外一个原因就是因为它尚未遭到社会否定。

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All the social media and constant distraction means our world is daily getting less cohesive and even more splintered.

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