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title: "Social Media: A Psychic Cancer"
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date: 2021-07-29
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author: Heartmender
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tags:
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- nosocialday
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There is a leech at the heart of many people's daily routines. It is a vampiric
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leech designed to broker access to dopamine, created and maintained by
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psychology experts in order to manipulate you into scrolling, posting, sharing
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and to just be angry. By leeching away these positive feelings (and feeding into
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the baser sides of the lizard brain's anger) it makes it harder to focus on
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things other than its iron grip on your focus.
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How many times have you looked at newsfeeds today? How many minutes have you
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burned scrolling down in a desperate hope to find something that gives you the
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happy chemical? How many times have you thought against posting something
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because it has a lower chance of being accepted by the community?
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How many times has the notification bell given you joy by seeing the number go
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up?
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This is becoming a cancer on humanity. It is leeching our focus and
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reprogramming our minds through operant conditioning.
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Yet at the same time it is a pillar of modern civic participation, and with the
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pandemic it has become a vital communication flow for people that were once able
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to communicate in person easily.
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I'm not sure how to best handle this issue, this is a bigger multifaceted issue
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than individuals can really take on their own. It's a societal problem. It's
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bigger than just people or small groups of them, it's something that affects us
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all.
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I'm going to participate in Social Media Detox Day on August 2nd, 2021. To get
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more information about it, click here: [detox.earth](https://detox.earth/). I
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will embed [a video by Techlore](https://youtu.be/HUQqHYjl2Pk) below:
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<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HUQqHYjl2Pk"
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title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay;
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clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture"
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allowfullscreen></iframe>
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I'm going to keep notes on paper with my feelings. I will probably not release
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them.
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Be well.
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