`` triggers a pleasure response in our brain that we want , even if it 's quasi-junk mail , because someone 's reaching out to us for a social connection . ` ` ' '' is the blurring of work and play -- both what we do and where we do it . Weisure is a modern society , says NYU professor Dalton Conley . ` ` We lose our private lives , '' he says . ` ` There 's less time to be our backstage selves '' Why ? Technology , longer workweek and more workers losing their jobs .
` ` ' '' is the blurring of work and play -- both what we do and where we do it . Weisure is a modern society , says NYU professor Dalton Conley . ` ` We lose our private lives , '' he says . ` ` There 's less time to be our backstage selves '' Why ? Technology , longer workweek and more workers losing their jobs .