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Do you think social media is addictive?

The video “You will want to watch this before you started using social media” has a lot of solid points. I do agree to some points of the video and others I do not. It states that the spike in dopamine is almost the same as using cocaine. The speakers give points insight that social media is very addictive and possibly very pragmatic to the public and its users, because as stated in the video people tend to view others post on social media and thus gives many individuals a state of depression. 
            Steven Kolter is concerned about the addiction to social media that is ruining people’s lives by eliminating their attention span. Kolter explains “that when you get a text message or notification you get a 400% spike in dopamine which is slightly less that what you would get if you were to use cocaine.” With this statement being said Kolter explains how this high gets people to care more of what others think of us over social media. 
            Tristan Harris, a member of the Time Well Spent movement made a statement saying that “these tools were designed to be addictive.” In this generation, our lives are centered around technology, in other words we have modified our lives so much that people seem to think that we cannot live without technology.  
            We have come to a point in our lives where we have our real life and we have our virtual life. In our real life, we subside where solely depend on what others think of us in our virtual life. We post pictures and keep our social media updated on what they want to perceive our life to be than what it actually is. Harris also states that “when we upload a new profile picture our minds are very vulnerable to what others think of us.” With this being averred social media is being used as a “drug that is very addictive.”
            To conclude this statement, social media has been modified so much that “We spend large portions of our day in a fragmented attention” with this being said even a quick glance at our phones to check to see who seen, liked, favorited, ect.. our post gives us this high that we all love. If it was my choice I would make a change to all social media and defiantly make an age limit to getting a social media account. The younger generation that is coming up all have some sort of technology or social media and I believe it is hurting them more than it is benefiting them. 


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