Is Social Media Making Us Un-Sociable?
Social media is a big part of the world we live in these days. You ask just about anybody if they participate in social media, and you will the answer most of the time is yes. As much as one third of the world is on social media! That’s a lot of people.
Dr. Danel Sieagal at The Mindsight Institute Executive Director talk about the irony of social media by looking at how social media shapes the brain, when the brain is what shaped and made social media. All fun and games until you see how social media is actually shaping the brain structure. The left hemisphere is the side you use when interacting with social media, using only verbal signs and getting stuck in this very linear way of thinking. Even …show more content…
It turns out they will not give an opinion, but will oblige your curiosity on the matter with some relative facts, such as how five to ten percent of the people on the internet literally cannot control how much time they spend on it.
Psychological addiction studies show that people with drug dependences share a similar impairment. We know how drugs take all control of someone’s attention, emotions and decision-making. What would be the main function of Facebook?
Also, they report how heavy social media users tend to perform worse in difficult multi-tasking situations. It seems like social media is taking away the ability to filter out distractions and committing thoughts to memory. Like when a phone buzzes at work—or doesn’t buzz. Phantom vibration syndrome is a new diagnosis that people are getting today. One study showed that eighty nine percent admitted to this happening at least once every two weeks.
It seems our bodies’ nervous systems are rewired to produce an “itch” for a phone. It also helps with the making of dopamine, the feel good chemical. Eighty percent of the stuff you talk about online is yourself. So, when you blab about yourself online your body is physically rewarding you for talking about …show more content…
Social media itself is just the internet evolved into what it has always been destined to be. Ever since the first social feature, the replay all button is in your email. Social media is just a tool for communication. Tim Berners, creator of the World Wide Web, commented, “I designed the internet as a social effect. To help people work together. Not as a technical tool.” People like to think they are pretty good at knowing who they’re friends with, but people don’t know what their friends think about them. Even worse, they are clueless to what their friends think of their friends. All that is clear on social media is, “I just must be blind.”
So, all very interesting stuff to know, but none help to aid us in our mission for the truth.
This leads me to a man named Jon Ronson, who answers the question and then some. He begins with how Twitter used to be a place where you unveiled your darkest secrets. A man named Jonna Lerra was caught plagiarizing, and at a public gathering had a chance to apologize. Keep in mind, people with their new power or “a voice” to level out hierarchies for misusing their power, seized the moment. At his speech they put a live Twitter feed behind them so people could mock his attempt to say he was sorry. Here, a man is on the floor, and we continue to kick him while he is
Social media is a big part of the world we live in these days. You ask just about anybody if they participate in social media, and you will the answer most of the time is yes. As much as one third of the world is on social media! That’s a lot of people.
Dr. Danel Sieagal at The Mindsight Institute Executive Director talk about the irony of social media by looking at how social media shapes the brain, when the brain is what shaped and made social media. All fun and games until you see how social media is actually shaping the brain structure. The left hemisphere is the side you use when interacting with social media, using only verbal signs and getting stuck in this very linear way of thinking. Even …show more content…
It turns out they will not give an opinion, but will oblige your curiosity on the matter with some relative facts, such as how five to ten percent of the people on the internet literally cannot control how much time they spend on it.
Psychological addiction studies show that people with drug dependences share a similar impairment. We know how drugs take all control of someone’s attention, emotions and decision-making. What would be the main function of Facebook?
Also, they report how heavy social media users tend to perform worse in difficult multi-tasking situations. It seems like social media is taking away the ability to filter out distractions and committing thoughts to memory. Like when a phone buzzes at work—or doesn’t buzz. Phantom vibration syndrome is a new diagnosis that people are getting today. One study showed that eighty nine percent admitted to this happening at least once every two weeks.
It seems our bodies’ nervous systems are rewired to produce an “itch” for a phone. It also helps with the making of dopamine, the feel good chemical. Eighty percent of the stuff you talk about online is yourself. So, when you blab about yourself online your body is physically rewarding you for talking about …show more content…
Social media itself is just the internet evolved into what it has always been destined to be. Ever since the first social feature, the replay all button is in your email. Social media is just a tool for communication. Tim Berners, creator of the World Wide Web, commented, “I designed the internet as a social effect. To help people work together. Not as a technical tool.” People like to think they are pretty good at knowing who they’re friends with, but people don’t know what their friends think about them. Even worse, they are clueless to what their friends think of their friends. All that is clear on social media is, “I just must be blind.”
So, all very interesting stuff to know, but none help to aid us in our mission for the truth.
This leads me to a man named Jon Ronson, who answers the question and then some. He begins with how Twitter used to be a place where you unveiled your darkest secrets. A man named Jonna Lerra was caught plagiarizing, and at a public gathering had a chance to apologize. Keep in mind, people with their new power or “a voice” to level out hierarchies for misusing their power, seized the moment. At his speech they put a live Twitter feed behind them so people could mock his attempt to say he was sorry. Here, a man is on the floor, and we continue to kick him while he is