From 2654dd37e82df2c963321c065bf1c28b26e7dbca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christine Dodrill Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2021 22:13:58 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Social Media: A Psychic Cancer Signed-off-by: Christine Dodrill --- ...l-media-psychic-cancer-2021-07-29.markdown | 48 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+) create mode 100644 blog/social-media-psychic-cancer-2021-07-29.markdown diff --git a/blog/social-media-psychic-cancer-2021-07-29.markdown b/blog/social-media-psychic-cancer-2021-07-29.markdown new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bf3966f --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/social-media-psychic-cancer-2021-07-29.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +--- +title: "Social Media: A Psychic Cancer" +date: 2021-07-29 +author: Heartmender +tags: + - nosocialday +--- + +There is a leech at the heart of many people's daily routines. It is a vampiric +leech designed to broker access to dopamine, created and maintained by +psychology experts in order to manipulate you into scrolling, posting, sharing +and to just be angry. By leeching away these positive feelings (and feeding into +the baser sides of the lizard brain's anger) it makes it harder to focus on +things other than its iron grip on your focus. + +How many times have you looked at newsfeeds today? How many minutes have you +burned scrolling down in a desperate hope to find something that gives you the +happy chemical? How many times have you thought against posting something +because it has a lower chance of being accepted by the community? + +How many times has the notification bell given you joy by seeing the number go +up? + +This is becoming a cancer on humanity. It is leeching our focus and +reprogramming our minds through operant conditioning. + +Yet at the same time it is a pillar of modern civic participation, and with the +pandemic it has become a vital communication flow for people that were once able +to communicate in person easily. + +I'm not sure how to best handle this issue, this is a bigger multifaceted issue +than individuals can really take on their own. It's a societal problem. It's +bigger than just people or small groups of them, it's something that affects us +all. + +I'm going to participate in Social Media Detox Day on August 2nd, 2021. To get +more information about it, click here: [detox.earth](https://detox.earth/). I +will embed [a video by Techlore](https://youtu.be/HUQqHYjl2Pk) below: + + + +I'm going to keep notes on paper with my feelings. I will probably not release +them. + +Be well.