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5 Ways Social Media Screws You Over
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5 Ways Social Media Screws You Over
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<span style="color:#ff0000">Number one</span>: It's designed1 to be addictive. According to1 a recent study, the average American is now spending 1.74 hours a day on social media including, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram and Tumblr. This number is only going to rise due to1 the fact that these companies make more money the longer you stay on them. Think about this: the more time you spend on social media, the more ads you see and the more ads you see, the more ad revenue1 these companies can make. So of course, it's in their best interest1 to keep you on their platform for as long as possible in order to generate more ad revenue. This is the case for just about all forms of social media. They are working as hard as they possibly can to think of ideas to make their platform as addictive as possible1 to keep you on it and to keep you coming back. Facebook even uses a form of tracking called Pixels to gather1 data from other websites that you go to to learn about what things you like. They then taper advertisements1 to your own taste and put it onto1 your newsfeed1. You can't really blame them though because business is business.</div><div class="virtualpage">
<span style="color:#ff0000">Number two</span>
It gives you a false sense of accomplishment1.
I'm sure we've all found ourselves scrolling down1 pages and pages of social media for hours at a time. Why is social media so addictive? A study actually found that liking, posting and even sharing produces a dopamine rush1 very similar to what you would receive if you hugged someone. So when you start receiving these feelings by doing nothing except <abbr title="traîner, faire l'imbécile">fooling around</abbr> on social media, you lose all the motivation to get it the old-school way, which is actually going out there1 and meeting new people, discovering new things or creating new things, because why go through1 all that trouble when you can just keep on scrolling, right?</div><div class="virtualpage">
<span style="color:#ff0000">Number three<span>
Browsing1 social media gives you a false sense1 of what the world really looks like. Everyone is posting only the most exciting, the most beautiful, amazing news and pictures of themselves, because we want others to like us. Who doesn't? And the best way to do that is to paint the most beautiful picture of ourselves for others to see. Very rarely will you see someone revealing1 the hardships1 in their life on social media. And the truth1 is that the majority of the time, most of us aren't always looking that great, or going on amazing adventures or having the times of our lives. The majority of people have internal struggles1 going on just like you and me, but on social media it seems like everyone else is <abbr title="s'éclater">having a blast</abbr> all the time. So when you constantly see all of this, you feel left behind1, you feel inadequate1, your self-esteem1 will <abbr title="chuter">plummet</abbr>.</div><div class="virtualpage">
<span style="color:#ff0000">Number four</span>
It hurts your social skills.
A study found that kids who grow up1 using social media show a significant decrease1 in social skills compared to those who don't. This is because communicating through1 social media is very simple as compared to communication in real life. When you communicate through social media you really just have to be fluent in the English language and understand how to use emojis. In real life, there's things like social signals, body langage, tonality1, dealing with1 groups and much much more.
These things are super complicated and extremely subtle1, it's not something that you can learn in a day. When you're on social media, you can communicate with others without practicing any of these things. So in the end, you don't get to see what really works, you don't get to see what makes others feel good, what makes others feel uncomfortable. Socializing1 is just like any other skill1 in that you need to practice in order to get good and to stay good. </div><div class="virtualpage">
<span style="color:#ff0000">Number five</span>
It is one of the worst investments1 you can make in your life.
Time is the most valuable form of currency1 that you have, it's valuable1 in the sense that it will only decrease, you'll never have any more of it. When you invest your time into social media, it's like investing money into a <abbr title="action">stock</abbr> that will always drop down to zero. It makes no sense, you'll never get a return on investment1, you can only lose, and one day five years from now, you'll realize you're 25 or 30 or 35 and you'll ask yourself, ‘Hey where did all my time go?’ Well, it all went into that crappy1 stock you invested in and you've lost it all. Instead, invest your time into something else, honestly, anything else, because your return on investment will always be higher than at least zero. If you spend two hours a day drawing art ,who knows? Someone might pay you a decent sum of money1 one day for one of your pieces. If you spent two hours a day creating YouTube videos, who knows? You might be able to create a passive <abbr title"revenus réguliers">income stream</abbr> that will last you for years. Doesn't that sound way better than zero? In the end, social media isn't inherently1 bad. Honestly, I use it from time to time. Facebook has things like events, groups, Messenger that are extremely useful tools, but if you're just mindlessly1 scrolling through your feed, you gotta ask to yourself: is this benefitting1 me in any way because if it's not, then why keep on doing it1?</div>
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