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The Ultimate Addiction: Social Media - Coggle Diagram
The Ultimate Addiction: Social Media
social media making people different/changing how they are as a whole
I know first hand what it is like to be addicted to this mind manipulation we call Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, etc. and how those who are not addicted act and those who are more addicted behave.
I am going to contribute real life instances that have happened to me where I have treated others with disrespect because I was on my phone too much and intertwined experiences where my family and friends have not given me any attention when speaking directly. By adding in these experiences, I think it will elevate the story to engage with the audience and have them potentially connect with the story because they know how it feels to be neglected over someone choosing their phone over you.
I want the audience to be those that are addicted to the point of ignoring those that we care for and love and hope that they grasp an understanding of what is worth more: social media and your phone or connecting and being in the moment with those around you.
There are so many people that are so addicted to their phone that they don't know how to even hold a simple conversation or even how to make eye contact with others when they are being spoken to. I know friends and family that are first hand addicted to their phones and social media as a whole. It is so hard to talk to these people and know if they even care anymore what I have to say, or anyone that is talking to them has to say.
The people that I have met in life that are not obsessed with social media even in the slightest are those that seem to enjoy life that much more because they aren't tied to their home every second the day. They are able to actually socialize with others and spend time with people with full focus, or at least a lot more focus than those who can't seem to break away from their devices. We are our only real people that we get to interact with and if we lose sight of the question: would you rather spend time with real people or spend your life on your phone, then we have a huge issue if the answer is one's phone.
Though it may not all be due to social media, there is still a huge part in these young girls' self confidence and the feeling of not being good enough in any way shape or form.
People are truly not the same when they are addicted to their phones and addicted to other people's lives instead of the ones that are in person, surrounding them.
social media compared to gambling
It suggests that every time we refresh our page, it is similar to someone pulling the lever on a gambling machine. Every time you “pull the lever,” more things keep coming and there is an endless supply, in this case, of media content and advertisements.
gambling is seen as such a bad thing to do and such a waste of money while social media is so similar to this concept but no one really says anything. Just as gambling wastes money, social media wastes time and ultimately, your life.
By comparing social media and the use of our phones to gambling, it allows us to see the similar behaviors and why it is not good for our mental health to use social media just as much as it is not good to waste our money when gambling.
People want more and more of the things they are addicted to so they will continue to “pull the lever” and be locked into the trap.
We are too trapped in this addictive device as the companies keep giving us our coins (more apps) to keep pulling the lever (interacting with the apps and wanting more and more).
social media reacting in our brains like drugs
Even the president of Pinterest states, ““the business model is to keep people engaged on the screen”.
The same type of reaction that we tend to get when we get likes and shares and retweets and tags in posts is the same reaction that recreational drugs such as cocaine give to our brain. Neuroscientists studied this when they tested that a syringe of dopamine being injected directly into one's body compared to one being in social media has the same effect. You feel happy for a minute and then the feeling goes away until you get more dopamine or get more likes and followers.
A Harvard study shows that the same part of the brain lights up when someone uses social media as when one uses addictive drugs. When people that are used to experiencing social media and being on it every day are then told to not use their phones for a significant amount of time they have a fear of missing out.
As drug users experience withdrawal symptoms when they do not feed their need for drugs, we experience the same feelings when we can not go on our phone for a certain amount of time. Once we then get our phones back, we then tend to excessively use and abuse our need for social media and get locked in the trap.
We can learn that these quick feelings of accomplishments and attention that we get from interacting with social media won't last forever and the “high” of being famous or more popular from these applications is not worth the lows of how it can make us feel at times.
how social media was designed to be addictive and keep people on their apps.
I think by people seeing the addictive properties of social media are extremely similar to those in recreational and illegal drugs, it may bring to light just how intense the use of social media can be.
social media creating a false reality and false happenings
We are addicted to the thing because the thing is not the one telling us to not be addicted.The thing is generating more and more things to keep us on longer and longer by following our every move and predicting what we want to see.
I always was up and down with my feelings on social media because I have had so many good, funny, happy feelings towards it while also having felt the lowest of my lows, depressed, angry, hurt.
I have been seemingly trapped for years in this mind manipulation of social media and putting all of the content for the world to see and businesses to take advantage of my data.
I say this because I don't think that those who are this addicted even know that others see their behaviors and how at times it can hurt those that want to be close to them.
People can be phone zombies and live their days staring constantly at them and it affects them more than they probably even know. I think by sharing my thoughts and opinions and other people's research and information, people can get a better understanding of just how addictive these apps can be and the harm they may inflict on someone.
I hope to express that this waste of time on our phones is wasting your life away. We are not living in the moment anymore and paying attention to the things that make life worth living.
This is important because people's self confidence can be completely shot if they see someone else online that seems like their life is better because they are prettier and wealthier and healthier and happier, when in fact that person may be going through the same feelings of not being good enough when they compare themselves to others.
I don't think that people understand how much we are attached to our phones, to the use of social media. We can't seem to break away from it because it is what's all around us these days and ultimately created false realities.
By being educated on what social media does to our brains when we feel the need to have it 24/7, hopefully then people can grasp that the world is seemingly trapped in this matrix from now until forever unless we do something about it.
Misc.
After watching “The Social Dilemma” on Netflix, I had a change of heart towards social media.
I want people to be able to either connect with the side that has felt neglected and ignored in the past that will allow them to know that others hear you and know what it is like.
I am interested in this topic because I don’t think that people realize how much social media affects our brains once we are locked into this addictive state.
I think my knowledge and experiences can bring some good to this world because I hope that it would be able to teach those that are so intensely addicted to their devices to grasp an understanding of how others want to interact with them differently.
This whole concept of social media is to keep us addicted.
There is something new everytime the page refreshes no matter how many times you do it. I think this is important to discuss the similarities between gambling and social media
These notifications that we get send happiness to our brains because we take them as awards and accomplishments that we got
amount of likes and
amount of followers just from one post!
In school, when we were sometimes told to put our phones in our backpacks or our phones in the cubbies, people would try to check their phones in the middle of class because they couldn't spend an hour or two without using their phones or knowing what's going on online.
Another important point I want to keep emphasizing is that people truly are different if they are on social media compared to those that aren't as much.
Social media is around us every day of most of our lives, especially the younger generations. It is inevitable that at one point or another every person is going to interact with social media. I think the points I'm making are important for people to see this side of social media and see how much it can impact someone
Suicide rates in females have skyrocketed to being 70% higher compared to the previous generation
If we have a break from it for even an hour, even when we are doing something fun, we need to get it back. We can't seem to fight the urge of breaking through the comfort of having and knowing everything that is going on around us. I hope that people can then see that we need to break this addiction. We need to not center our lives around the little world that lives in our back pocket
I think by adding a creative viewpoint to this important topic it can allow for people to not feel overwhelmed by the topic and want to hear me out. I think there are lessons to be learned throughout this paper and concept because those who are addicted to their phone will hopefully gain an understanding of why this isn't good for them and why they should step back and take a minute to see if social media is really good and healthy for oneself.