DETOX
What is a digital zombie?
FOMO is short for this phrase with “Fear” as the first word.
What is Fear Of Missing Out?
On TikTok and Instagram, these 5- to 15-second videos are often paid promotional content.
What are reels / short ads?
This is the process of walking in a park or nature instead of staying inside with screens.
What is a nature walk?
The slang term refers to watching too many short-form videos — usually short, endless, and scrollable.
What is brain rot?
This is Mr. C's first name.
What is Yuri?
The app feature that tells you how many minutes per day you have used your phone or specific apps (iOS).
What is SCREENTIME?
If someone feels FOMO when their friends are at a party, they might do this to check in.
What is check social media / scroll Instagram?
When an influencer is paid to promote a product and discloses it by using “#ad,” that is this kind of marketing.
What is influencer marketing?
Exposure to this kind of light outside helps regulate your sleep cycle.
What is sunlight?
In Minecraft, a Creeper explodes when you get too close. What noise does it make just before exploding?
What is "ssss?"
Mr. C's dog, Rosko, is this breed of dog.
What is Siberian Husky?
On Android phones, Google offers this tool to monitor and limit your app usage.
What is Digital Wellbeing?
Studies show FOMO is positively correlated with this mental health issue (one word).
What is anxiety?
Meta (the parent company of Instagram & Facebook) uses this targeting feature to show ads based on users’ age, location, and interests. What happens when dopamine levels drop?
What is targeted advertising?
Studies suggest that just 10 minutes outside in nature can increase this feel-good chemical (one word).
What is Dopamine?
This term means you feel something, but in this way — not too loudly or dramatically.
What is low key?
Mr. C used to do this in Los Angeles.
What is video editing?
A “digital sabbath” means doing this once a week.
What is turning devices off / not using social media for 24 hours?
This chemical deficit can cause FOMO
A “boosted post” is when you pay to turn one of your posts into this.
What is an ad?
This is the average time we spend on our phones daily.
The trend where people pretend to be stuck in an endless camera loop while talking to the camera is called this type of video.
What is an NPC stream?
Mr. C was originally born in this country.
What is Russia?
A study found that taking a break from social media for one week improved this mental state (2-word phrase): “life ___.”
What is "life satisfaction"?
Going outside or DM'ing a friend can help you achieve this.
What is FLIP FOMO?
In 2023, TikTok introduced this tool to let creators sell products directly within the app (two words).
What is TikTok Shop?
This is the little device was buried on a mountain to help lower social media use (video we watched!)
What is the Brick?
The meme term “skibidi” comes from this viral YouTube animation series that mixes heads in toilets and dancing characters.
What is Skibidi Toilet?
Mr. C teaches this many Freshman Seminar classes.
What is 4?