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5 ways to scale back on social media

mma Lembke joined Instagram when she was 12. The last of her friend group to sign up, she had sensed the appeal of the app in the gazes of friends; people who used to look at her now looked at their phones. “I thought to myself, There has to be something incredibly magnetic and magical and connective that pulls people into these apps,” recalls Lembke, who’s now 21 and founder of a

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