Social medias are designed to make you keep on using them. They will try to release as much dopamine as possible from you. The more you use social media, the more money they will make and they have most intelligent team of developer and marketers to help you keep using them. There is a big addiction in our society in social media!
How do they make us addict?
Posts!
We see everyone posting their happy life in social media, your friend have a partying pic, your brother have pic in a foreign country, your little sister has picture with her boyfriend and all seems enjoying! When we scroll through the newsfeed we see all are enjoying and the one who seem to not enjoying is you. This will make us sad!Notification!
We see notification and get excited and click that and later end up knowing it is just not important. We will be waiting for that notification and in the process we end up looking many notification which are not important.
Most people are depressed cause they are using social medias a lot. The main reason is cause their lives seems so plain in comparison to other and they must keep on focusing on how to make their live seems more interesting.
There are ways to control the overuse of social media, I'll discuss it in next post!