Do you ever wonder why you’re addicted to social media? Is it because you like the attention? Or because you enjoy feeling connected to family and friends? My theory is that social media is a way to escape from your reality, similar to drugs and porn, and we will not understand the consequences until society falls apart (which it already is doing in the west.)
We all love social media, granted we have different reasons but too much of anything can become toxic. Personally, I’ve applied this to eating and feel better when I eat less, even doing fasts to not eat everyday. Listen, I don’t want to beat a dead horse because we all know social media is bad, but I do want to take the time to quantify how bad it is.
Cigarettes damage your lungs, alcohol damages your liver, and social media warps your reality, which ultimately damages your mind. It’s the psychological damage it does that people don’t seem to notice, because it’s so minimal, day over day.
I was happier before social media. I was able to connect with people in a genuine way, potential friends and even in dating. Now, if you say the wrong thing or post something controversial, people unfollow or block you on a whim. You are cut out from their life, forever. This is because people are disconnected, it’s the same thing that started with the industrial revolution. People left their small communities and moved to the cities to make money, and in doing so, they left their community thinking to city thinking, which encouraged being independent rather than working together.
If we continue to disconnect with each other, we’ll all be at war with each other. There will be no accountability and genuineness, only an imaginary profile that garners fleeting attention from people you do not care about. The amazing part is our brain is aware of this phenomenon in an unconscious setting. Why? Because deep inside of every one of us, we feel depressed despite all the attention and popularity on social media. The mind knows it’s not “real” — it’s a cheap form of connection and it does not fully value it.
This is my first draft and will continue making edits, just wanted to get this out into the world. If you like my thoughts and ideas, please give me a follow! Thx.
