Social Media Overload

The primary message in “You Will Wish You Watch This Before You Started Using Social Media” is that companies behind our social media try to make it more addictive than drugs. The company behind app such as Facebook, Snapchat even Instagram look at tactics done by Casinos in Las Vegas to find out how to trigger the dopamine in our brains while we are using their products to make it impossible not to use them and grow an addiction. When we use social media we’re taking a chance of growing an addiction from whichever form we use whether it’s Facebook, Snapchat or Instagram its going to find a way to draw us in , take a hold of us to the point it’s controlling our actions throughout the day .

 We as humans have basic functions of communication that we have learned over time while our social tools can be a good thing when it comes to our communication skills, what happens when we slowly start seeing that they are ripping society apart . One of the speakers in the video states “we have created social tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of our society” . When we look at where we are at this point in time we have technology all around us, everywhere we go, in doing so we get to the to point where we feel phantoms vibrations from our phones due to our social media which creates the magic of maybe.  Another speaker states that “we have created the magic of maybe”. . When you get a like or heart from your social media you get a 400% spike in dopamine in return drawn you in to where there’s no way out you’re just addicted to your social media . The social media dopamine problem also causes people to confuse truth and reality . The same speaker I have for my first quote says “we confuse truth and reality” . Posting something on our social media for others to see is just an illusion of what we really do in our everyday activities . When we’re posting pictures we create a false truths because 99% of the time the moment were in is just a regular day . We put up these pictures for others to see just to get a like and in return we then created the person to feel depressed and awful about themselves over a fake picture because as humans we can never stop comparing our lives or anything to others.

A speaker from the article has worked for Facebook from 2007 to 2011 and has created his own company Social Capital which helps start-up companies . This man believe that social media praise on human vulnerability by creating special features that make us want to spend more time on their product in doing so it is rewriting our brains. Chamath Palihapitiya explained that the more time you spend on social media the more it keeps you in controlled by limiting your time you gain back control of the beast which is social media dopamine and find a way to use social media responsibly .