I was planning to call my friend in the evening, then prepare a light meal and benefit from an early bedtime, only to find myself almost against my will scrolling endlessly on social media, wasting my time and attention on unplanned and unproductive activity… almost against my will. My brain was simply being… Hacked!
Does this resonate with you?
Technology companies are hacking your brain by developing addiction coding techniques on smartphones, apps, and social media platforms, engineered to create the need to check 24-7-365.
One of the techniques consists in creating technological rewards aiming to replace social and natural rewards; online validation is manifested in the number of views, likes, shares and comments, which is deeply affecting your real relationships, the ones with family, friends and society. 
The Attention economy is also affecting your relationship with yourself by distracting you from your plans and goals, wasting your time, in addition to influencing your beliefs and inviting you to self-centeredness and self-obsession.
Long story short, technology companies aim to get you ADDICTED; your attention, which is the end product, is being $OLD to their clients-advertisers. 
Start hacking your brain before someone else does! 
You can take the driver’s seat and get your time and attention back by choosing how you want to spend those currencies, you can opt to connect consciously by deciding in prior how much you want to $pend online.
By shifting from unconsciousness to consciousness, from autopilot mode to awareness, by keeping your mind present, focused and alert, you can successfully build self-directed neuroplasticity. 
Many factors can contribute to an effective brain hacking, these include rebooting your circadian clock, new learning, in addition to reframing challenges and visualizing goals accomplishment, thus tweaking the technological reward system and creating your own.