How Social Media Is Destroying Our Brains

Social media is addicting - practically all of us have dealt with this. Are instagram and facebook on your side? No, they are built to profit off of your need for connection, while they truly have a very negative effect on our psychology.

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Thanks to Tristan Reed (writing), Troy W. Hudson (VO) for helping to create this video!

[LordProteus]

Social Media can make me unhappy because a lot of people on the internet make me angry with their stupidity and nonsense. I consider the majority of social media to have been overrun with the worst aspects of Mankind. A place for stupidity, anger, hatred, jealousy and spite to fester and spread.

[JohnDoe-qqet]

I feel like a robot learning to be human again.

[ashleyrobertson]

People always lie on social media so they could made themselves look good. They even lie about who they are, where they work, etc.

[BDolla]

Social Media is the most narcissistic environment I've ever seen PERIOD. Facebook should have their logo next to narcissism in the damn Dictionary.

[Juliaa__T]

I went off social media for 17 days now because I was getting sucked into the vicious cycle of painting my life in a perfect way. It was becoming negative and toxic. At first it felt so bizarre not browsing, like it was some sort of addiction. Now I just live my life and start journaling without having to share it

[alyssajones]

Social media can definitely fuck you up. I've seen it happen to friends, family members and even classmates. They aren't getting enough followers, views, likes, etc their dopamine is utterly shattered. Sad world we live in 💔

[beautifulllstars]

The problem is that even if YOU get rid of social media, your smartphone, etc. everyone else around you is still using it. People look at you and think you're a weirdo just sitting in public without staring at your phone.

[rafiq]

No FB/IG/twitter since the beginning :D
People think its weird... I think its awesome

[ossen]

*Social Media is a tool*
Unfortunately, in this stressed out and fast paced life, we become easily restless and bored, thus cultivate a highly addictive personalities.

[Detonatr]

i realised on my own that social media especialy instagram are toxic. I delete them all and i realy havent missed them at all.

[diegosocold]

Most people I know are starting to value virtual connections more than real ones

[bn]

I broke up with my ex and found myself constantly posting pictures for him to see. It was so toxic

[stevensjoseph]

The irony in this video is we're using social media to watch it 😭.

[jackcarraway]

Other underlying things about social media that no one talks about is that it:

1. Completely warped the meaning of the word "friend".

2. Gives us an unhealthy and unnatural 24/7 hour access to these "friends".

3. It doesn't let relationships die naturally. By this mean we let people stay on our friends list even though we may haven't seen this person in years.

[heartfixer]

Very accurate! These are the reasons why I decided to quit facebook, instagram and twitter. The bottomline is that it's not really good for our mental health.

Even if some people would argue and say that it's their way to stay updated with the news, I highly suggest everyone to install other apps specifically for news update.

Also, for those people who can't really help themselves from taking pictures whatever they are doing, maybe it's time to reflect that not every picture is worth posting or maybe they should just keep it in their phones. Right??

[FastLif]

I'm only here because i fasted from social media for 21 days and was happy and content. and then i got back on and felt like trash. my whole mood changed completely.

[nc-zehj]

Never had a Facebook or Instagram. No regrets.

[ajdynamo]

That last one especially. It is so hard to have a conversation with certain people these days because they're too busy updating their Instagrams.

[royadair]

It is extremely difficult to make friends with people offline because everyone nowadays are online searching for the same thing. People do need real relationships with real people . I gave up most of my Social media apps because the people were only your friend while being online.

[ambiousdrver]

I have friends I would hang out with and they would always be on their phones while I would want to talk about ideas, plans, and try to motivate them but they see social media as a bigger priority I guess 🤷‍♂️