The Dark Side of Social Media
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- Опубликовано: 26 окт 2023
- Social media has allowed us to connect with each other no matter who we are or where we are located. But all good things come at cost. How does social media influence our mental health? Does it actually allow us to connect better with each other or is it a poor alternative for real human relationships? Which is the worst one: TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat or Instagram? Are any of these social media platforms good for you?
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My addiction on watching videos which adress the dark side of social media is just something else
😂
Zzz
Bro just wire differently
@Ayanda846 address*
@@vunguyentr5561 :']
Entertainment becomes addiction when you don't use it as a source of entertainment, but to escape the present, the reality.
Yep reality is too absurd and dystopian these days to take on sober lol
.... isn't that the point of entertainment
I'm with you on this issue.
@@hotfudgecakenah
That's the point of amusement
@charlottesimss9853 that truly is tragic
I've started reading & studying again to widen my deceased attention span. It's a struggle I never imagined.
Meditate. Seriously, try to meditate.
Start learning chess. It will help.
@@Wesearchwifmedefinitely meditate.
im in the same position. i’ve never struggled with my attention span this badly until the last couple of years
H.O.W (Honesty, Open-minded, Willingness)... Be true to you!
It’s been 2 years since I left social media. I have no regrets at all.
I got sick of people gossiping, drama, negativity & people faking their lives & friendships and sharing everything that should be private or craving attention with provocative pictures & selfies.
A number of things I realised:
1. People who added me as “Friends” didn’t really care about me. They were “So called Friends” just to increase their friends list.
2. When people were going through their hardest times of anxiety, trauma and upset, I went out of my way & made an effort by helping & supporting them. But when I was going through my hardest times, including anxiety, trauma and stress. The people who I helped & supported never reached out to me to help or supported me even when I struggled. Everything has become one sided.
3. Certain posts or videos get blown out of proportion or completely taken out of context even if it’s nothing negative.
4. People lie about the amount of friends they REALLY have. Who in the REAL world has 100s or 1000s of friends WHO??
5. Communication is very one sided. The same person had to make the first move to start a conversation as the other person doesn’t make an effort themselves or just can’t be bothered.
6. People lie about their lives, they only show the positive side of theirs lives which doesn’t show the real truth about the person. You can’t tell and don’t see if someone is REALLY depressed, upset, isolated, lonely, feeling suicidal or what’s actually going on in their actual lives. Even if people post how they really feel, people don’t always care or not interested.
7. It makes people fake and insecure. It’s not just school kids or teenagers in schools, colleges, universities or workplaces doing it, but adults as well are also being fake & insecure, especially managers.
8. People compare themselves to others just to get loads of “Likes” & comments.
9. Social media has increased loneliness, isolation, anxiety and depression which can be severe.
10. Due to social media and the increase in technology, it’s causing destruction & destroying peoples lives in the sense of their is no sense of unity, community, love and nobody wants to help each other. If they see someone doing something constructive and productive and they’re doing well in a community or society, people will laugh at them in an act of ignorance, and cannot wait for them to fall down. Social media is dividing people, not bringing people together.
11. Having a proper conversation or being real is considered not normal and people think it’s creepy. People don’t like having real conversations.
12. It’s made people to be narcissists, self entitlement, ignorant, prejudice and bullies.
13. People can say things or make comments that are abusive, racist, sexist, ignorant, prejudice, misogynist, homophobia, xenophobia, discrimination openly online, rather than to your face. People troll others on social media.
14. I have seen Boys & Girls take provocative, selfies / pictures to get attention from so called friends / strangers, sometimes in a negative way, for example, woman having their boobs / chests hanging out, body image, men & women showing off muscles, six pack & more.
15. With social media & the young generation with regards to friendships, people feel that if they add someone as friend request and they accept it, or meet someone & they click with them they automatically think that’s “friends for life” people need to realise that’s not how friendship REALLY works.
Friendships are & should always be a 2-way street. Real friendships would make the effort to support & be there for each other through the good times, fun times, hard times, sad times, upsetting times & more. Communication & making an effort should be equal on both sides. Not the same person who always makes first contact. The other person should also make an effort too.
We need to ALL learn the skill set of when we suffer from stress, anxiety, trauma, facing problems & more, that we should reach out to our friends or professionals for help & support, NOT social media.
16. Our young generation has grown up addicted. They have been addicted to mobile phones, alcohol, drugs, social media & more at a young age It’s very sad.
I never had TikTok, Twitter or Instagram. Glad I didn’t sign up to any of them. Facebook was the only social media platform I had and it was recommended to me back when I was in my teens.
I only use RUclips as I can look at interesting things like cooking recipes and motivation videos and music videos of festivals & concerts and more fun stuff.
I enjoy going out in nature walks, bowling listening to music and learning new hobbies and watching movies.
Since leaving it’s been the best decision of my life. I enjoy life more, I can now enjoy doing the things I do or want to try without being judged or told what to do without being made to feel guilty.
I feel more happier and a massive weight has been lifted off my shoulders.
I think if social media disappeared forever, I can guarantee people will spend REAL quality time with friends and family. People will know who their REAL friends are and that they will do things together and have a good time doing it. I also feel that people will have proper conversations and listen and engage.
I do feel sorry for our young generation. The young generation is lost. There is so much talent and ideas in young people and they need to show that in a positive & constructive way. We can make change for the future. The young generation needs real positive role models to look up to, for them to succeed in life & beyond.
Sadly #2 is all too common irl also
this is too real bro
@@Iamonyoutubee I'm plagiarising myself here but this is surely one of the most wholesome comment sections on all of the you tubes
Kudos quitting social media for two years. Highly respect! 🫡
Maybe as a species this all part of how we continue to evolve, In the future what was once the norm now will not be normal anymore
During a rough time with my ex girlfriend, my Instagram reels feed changed to partners cheating and lying to eachother. This is literally fd up
She cheateeeeed?////
same!
@@latrolettteeeeeeeIt's not that. They know you broke up with your girlfriend and they feed you with these negative cheating stories so you feel emotional and get sucked into scrolling more without you even knowing it. I swear whenever i had a problem in my relationships even tiny details like i was wondering if my gf loved me for example i got these relationship advises that how to know your partner loves you etc. That's fucked up, they control your life.
@@xCONANx1thats literally what happens to me too... i see everything i think of .. it is like they are constantly watching, listening and following me
TikTok has taken the absurdity of social media to new heights, fb was bad, but TikTok was the final nail in the coffin for humanity. Game over chaps
GG people ,I guess we’re all screwed
The new feature, giving away money to random people in the shape of “cartoons”, resembles in some way gambling…pretty disgusting app
The nail has been in the coffin. Mental health was always gonna destroy us when we discarded previous systems of morality and understanding without knowing the depth of their purpose. This online hyper globalization is just a catalyst that will speed up humanities descent into madness
Lies again? Canada Gay Tik Tok
bruh I thought no one can beat twitter for being the worse social media platform with its users but holy cow, Tiktok made me question my sanity 2 weeks straight after I had it on my phone.
One of the dark sides of social media is the non stop bombardment of advertisements rammed down ur throat, tv was and still is bad enough but cant even listen to a 3 minute song withput listening to 2 ads at the beginning and then one at the end then all over again for the next song.
Ads are a great way to convince you how stupid the internet is on the contrary. I turn my phone off sometimes when they pop up.
Just buy a CD player and buy cds
Nobody talks anymore😮
@@perrycoffey5410listen to radio, video stars , sexualised choreography, trust me, #HeartRadio Catch up on your lost decade❤
I've watched 7 minutes of this video so far and I'm going through and deleting all my social media, I'm so tired of the damage it does to my mental health.
are you still following up on this?
update??
I can confirm I am using my time a lot better since I stopped using social media. It hasn't made me 100% productive or anything, I still spend a good amount of time playing video games. However, I avoid games with daily challenges or any kind of pressure to login like the plague as it gives a similar feeling of having to "keep updated" rather than actually being there because I want to. Under these conditions, that is at least valuable as entertainment whereas the scrolling barely ever even provided that. I am doing a lot better in my college classes too.
I am still using discord since I want to keep in contact with friends I can't contact otherwise. But since discord is only a messaging service and doesn't have the scrolling aspect, I really only end up on there briefly every few days. So at least for me, it is mainly the scrolling that was a problem.
So if you guys are looking for confirmation that it is worth it, I would definitely say that it is. If you still want to have a way to talk to certain friends, if you can just get rid of the scrolling that will still be immensely helpful to your time management and mental health.
I loved TikTok. Although I do have to admit, it was starting to take too much of my time. The music/dance videos, watching families happily spending time together and all the knowledge that's been hidden yet revealed, was nice to use for inspiration. BUT I did delete the app a couple months ago & ever since I've been able to accomplish lots more in life devoting my time elsewhere. Social Media definitely has its ups & downs, just got to monitor your usage.
People are incredibly cruel on social media, to the point where it's ridiculous. I have been cyber bullied relentlessly by simply commenting on a meme. Not a political meme, not a controversial meme, just like...a damn SpongeBob meme. It's absurd.
that's the culture, i think it's important not to take anything personally. most commentors may be blocking their own childhood wounds with anger tbh. hope you are ok
What did you say? I wanna know if it was justified
@@premium2681 spongebob meme crowd some of the most ruthless online atm
I think it's the younger crowd that's doing that. They just have to say something smart to a random person knowing they wouldn't do that in person. I also noticed that when you say something back they hurry up and report your page. So I just immediately blocked them hide them from my stories restrict their account
People are not cruel but built up emotions cause people to choose social media to express themselves some use it as a distraction tool some as a relief tool who will judge a user without identity bad mouthing strangers no one doom scroll is something we face all
I was a young teen when social media appeared like Bebo, MySpace, and then FB. The way people faked their own personal lives and fought about pointless things taught me to stay far away from it. I truly feel bad for kids these days...as if commercials, movies, magazines, and normal teenage life isnt hard enough already.
I feel like the internet in 2000s-2010s was much safer and better... People used to share a much less portion of their lives there and it was a mere form of fun and entertainment. Yes things like getting a virus or your IP leaked might have been harder to prevent but in general there was nothing to prevent since people weren't so open there. Forums and chatrooms were anonymous. Nothing was corporate and addictive. RUclips was a creative space.
In short terms it wasn't something that took over your life, it was something that was just a portion of your life
I know right
MySpace was my very first social media profile & tbh I got it like 3yrs after everyone else was using it and by that time Facebook started to become popular. I'm always late on the new apps... lolz
Never been on tiktok
Never been on Twitter
Used Facebook and insta a little but mostly on youtube watching interesting videos.
I don't have any complaint against social media but MYSELF.
I used to write songs,poetry even draw just few yrs ago but now I've lost control of myself and have let these side elements like social media rule me.
So the fault lies within me.
If you need a hug, I’m here
Knowing, is half the battle❤
It's rare to see people take self accountability for this. 👏
@@theone7059 battle, who are we fighting
I'm only on Facebook and Instagram. I got hooked on these apps. But as an artist they been and are really helpful to make ends meet. Now I'm full time artist. Try to do something positive out of it.
The dark side of social media can be unsettling. It's where cyberbullying and toxic comparisons thrive. I've felt the weight of negativity and the pressure to curate a perfect image. But it's a reminder to use social media mindfully, focus on authenticity, and prioritize mental well-being. Choose positivity :)
Even in real life their is all the same pressures from your peers , in my opinion .
Just look for things to learn. Makes the internet a whole lot more interesting
@@KillerHeadache111 Soul of ADAM:
repentance (Luke 5:32 KJV)
repent (Luke 13:3 KJV)
born again ( John 3:7 KJV) ( 1 Peter 1:23)
come out from Babylon and expose it ( Revelation 18:4) (Ephesians 5:11 KJV)
forsake your evil ways (sins) (Jonah 3:10 KJV)
do the WILL of your Heavenly FATHER. (Matthew 7:21 KJV)
@@theharshtruthoutthereShouldn't you be off taking peoples money before you feed them crackers and grape juice priest?
I also saw myself spiraling into this addiction n feeling like I couldn’t pay attention or even read a book but now I read daily and am on my phone less and less so I’m doing a better job
so happy you’re doing well!!
Same. Has to be an extraordinary movie to sit right through
- comment on a hour long video
Keep your kids off social media.
Except when their friends are convincing your kids to use social media because "everyone uses it".
Yeah. No shit.
A few days ago I redownloaded tiktok, I deleted it because I knew how bad it was, and I couldn’t believe how addicting just scrolling is. It’s always ‘I’ll just find one more good video’ then it just keeps going and going
It really is very addicting
Yeah. I thought Instagram win over, but it is a decent app due losing by tik tok. Sad that app is killing everyone, not just tik tok. Social media is a joke, think of all slow down and do more things at home.
I wish i could delete RUclips shorts without deleting youtube
It's psychologically similar to how slot machines work. That's how these apps are designed.
@@TheElegantPelicanOn the computer there are browser extensions for that. Not sure about phones.
doom scrolling is what my wife and I call it. Also typically we find that we will land on horrible stuff that is meant to piss us off instead of inspire or actually entertain.
We deleted tiktok, and stopped doing reels and IG. We use FB for messenger only now. AND YT for entertainment, where at least for now we can manipulate our history to manage our feed.
Manipulate history to manage feed? How do you do this :0
I noticed that horrible stuff still gets pushed through the algorithm even when you're not logged on on the platform you're viewing it from.
i deleted my TikTok a couple months back and i can honestly admit its changed my life & daily structure of getting things done. Its def made a positive change for my life. Social media has a huge impact on everyone whom uses the applications especially on a daily basis. It takes a lot of strength to delete them.
When life gets hard that's when you bite down on the gum shield, you get back up n you fight for your life.
You don't just move forward when it's easy, you crawl forward if you have to when it's hard. That's how you grow, that's how you win.
I've been in alcohol n cocaine addiction for 22 years.
This ruthless opponent almost took my job, my home, my wife. I attempted suicide as I saw no way out.
Now I walk the dog, workout, meditate n study stoicism every day.
Now I'm 6 months free from alcohol & drugs.
Now I'm thriving in work, my wife is proud of me n we're stronger than ever.
Now I love myself.
If you're struggling n you're reading this please know youre not alone n you can do this. You can beat your demons too, whatever they may be.
You CAN do it.
We appreciate how well you've articulated your thoughts on this topic. I too have no shame in admitting that I'm addicted to scrolling a lot. Pretty sure I get distracted quite easily by everything I see online.
This is why meditation is becoming more and more important in everyday human life. We need that time to unplug from the grid and connect with ourselves and a higher consciousness. 🙏🏻💜
The it's time to take action
AI comment
The choices we make using social media define our mental and physical well being. Thanks for more information, growing my knowledge in this specific topic. Blessings
I gave up all social media about six months ago and it was the best decision I’ve ever made.
youtube is considered social media
@@Claireli437no it’s not you weirdo, you KNOW it’s not the same.
@@corrosivecub still considered social media 🤷♀️ im js stating a fact
@@Claireli437you ain’t wrong
@@corrosivecub it is def social media lol. Just not as brain melting as tiktok/shorts
social media has turned us into zombies.
Nah, zombies have a purpose.
The total commodification of humanity has chosified and robotized us, turning us into circulatory wrecks on the narcissistic exchange market. Karl Marx wrote and methodologically predicted all this over 150 years ago. He didn't write for 19th-century capitalism, but for 21st-century capitalism. We have entered its terminal phase.
True
H.O.W (Honesty, Open-minded, Willingness)... Be true to you!
We all have so much more potential than we realize. We are meant for more than flicking our thumbs at blinking screens. Our time is MORE valuable than money ever could be and we are being harvested. It truly makes my heart ache. Today i decided that ive had enough. While it may be unrealistic in todays social climate to completely null social media, there ARE things that can be done. I didnt delete my accounts but i deleted the apps off my phone. I started a progress journal, and have it marked every 2 weeks on my calendar where i may check sm for under 30 minutes. My social media addiction is embarassingly bad but thats how its designed to be. 5+ hours a day for years down the drain. No more.
I mainly waste time on YT. Shorts tend to keep me mindlessly scrolling (dopamine lever)... I have to not start scrolling or I can fall into an hour+ scroll binge and see zero useful content. There are so many news & documentary channels on YT, it's a shame that shorts steal attention.
Same here, YT was great without the shorts.
I had to take TikTok off my phone because my algorithm was full of red pill, women bashing, man haters and fake relationship gurus. It made me so anxious and triggered all my old fears
It really gets addicting watching bitter people. I’m more peaceful now that I’m not on there and limit my Instagram time too
It is so incredibly obvious that Tiktok is designed to shorten the human attention span.
Lets be real. Social media can bring laughter and knowledge on the table. And social media can bring insecurities and depression on the table. So its not about spending to much time on the platforms, its about spending too much time on watching things that does not help you. For example, if i spend 90 minutes watching educational content then it is 100% beneficial. However, if i spend 90 minutes watching women being inappropriate, watching useless cooking videos which your never going make, following useless social media influencers then it can have a negative impact and lead to mental health issues.
I agree to some extent, but I strongly disagree with you. Even if you only try to consume beneficial content, there's no escaping the garbage out there: inappropriate behavior from both men and women, people engaging in senseless challenges, intrusive ads, and, in general, all the vulgar and unwanted content bombards you against your will
The problem is the algorithm. China exposes way too much intelligence, facts, people that perform well is what pops up first.
Same app on all of America continent shows baddies, stpd challenges, dance moves, women exposing bodies, fights, etc.
You have to really go search for actual good content, and not many people know that
The algorithm is based off the videos you’re engaging with. Everybody RUclips ain’t showing the same thing . Delete your liked videos that a help
@@HM_dololearn proper English smh
@Limartinez983
I solve this problem by having several RUclips accounts. Each account only deals with one given topic. For example, I have an account for uplifting pet videos, another for true crime, one for documentaries. I choose which topic I want to watch and switch to the appropriate account. Thus way the only algorithm suggestions I get are for the topic I want to watch. This has saved me hours of dead time not scrolling for hours.
It's youtube shorts for me. I avoided tiktok but youtube took the same concept.
I hated social media since MySpace. The last 20 years have only made me think it's been a net negative for humanity. I wish I wasn't right. I dint have any SM. Never have never will. Have sone self discipline, and respect. Train yourself to enjoy challenge, and delayed gratification, reject short term dopamine hits, and emotional manipulation from all sources. Be on guard, and learn critical thinking. Turn off your notifications. Turn off custom reccomendations on everything. Engage on your terms not thiers, the companies that turned humanity into a commodity
I'm glad there wasn't social media when I was in high school. I had social anxiety.
Not only do you get a shot of dopamine from each scrool,but it also makes you do it again and again.Its such a complexs process that keeps you hooked.By the way i love your ideas for videos
I’m happy and proud of you
Ihe never used filters for the very reason you explained here: I don't want to create a false idea of what im supposed to look like, im happy wirh how i look. ❤ You should be too.
i deleted tiktok off my phone earlier today and i swear to GOD watching this video is giving me a craving! the same feeling as when i try to quit nicotine kind of craving its insane
The only meaningful thing to do in life is to kick addiction.
I am so happy to be born in the 90s we had none of that. Thank god
That was a good piece on OF. I roll my eyes every time someone says they’ll just go on there to make money.
You’re so right the outliers that make a good living are either celebrities or people with large social media followings from something else. Even then, you still need to do outrageous publicity to stay relevant and drive traffic to your content. It’s not easy money at all
You started talking about "hey you've stuck around long enough to watch this video" and I had to move my mouse to make sure I hadn't just blanked out on everything due to lack of attention
It's definitely a line that caught mine for sure, thanks man
I know people that have had to step away from social media for longer and longer periods of time just because when they go back the constant stream of posts (both positive and negative) starts to get insanely overwhelming
Tiktok is definitely a factor, and so is the way that you're fed posts. Even FB will start to hide peoples' posts if you don't talk with them often in favor of someone who you may actually rarely talk with but they post so often and get so much interaction that you just HAVE to see it or you're missing out. Even just thinking "god I'm missing out on their lives so much" when in reality you go back and everyone's still talking about the same stuff (plus or minus some life events) and really it's just that you were missing out on a constant stream of posts by them for the same level of dopamine that you get from seeing new Tiktok/Snapchat/RUclipsshorts/Reels
it's a whole separate level of FOMO in the worst way
I really would not know. Ive never had tiktok or its like apps. Neither has my kid. We just never felt the need for it.
You had the best kind of childhood!
The one thing I noticed about me being constantly online, mainly since recently I've moved countries and and haven't quite settled down and financially a bit strapped. I cannot for the life of me pick up a book and read through its entirety. I used to read and reread books constantly, even just back a few years ago when I was a bit more settled. But since my transitions the last 3 years (I'm 47 now), internet is everywhere ans a super cheap form of entertainment as its almost available anywhere... I am going to cut off for a bit once I find regular employment and get back to the library again. I can't imagine being a child and growing up with this constant stimulation, how their minds are actually able to focus on anything long term.
Very informative and well made. It’s like watching a movie.
Dude, you did a perfect job keeping attention of the exact target audience you are trying to educate. Massive kudos to you. I love your videos by the way, keep creating cause you are one of the best creators out there right now.
This is very well researched, thank you !
I feel blessed I don't have the urge to use social media. I am however, hooked on RUclips ♿♿♿
Same.
Why every youtube addict just ignore alll other social media and don't use them all except youtube.
RUclips such a powerful thing.
I too suffer from RUclips-itis.
RUclips is knowledge. The others are self centered.
@@Moonx09 You know perfectly well that the root of the problem isn't which is the best social network and which has the "right" content. It's something much deeper, a historical social relationship.
Fantastic production and well narrated! Great content. Nice one
With two years of being jobless...social media has taken a toll on me, instead of working on myself i tend to mindlessly scroll through Instagram. It's absurd, addicive. It's more bad than good. Hope people understand this and live a more fuller life outside of their phones.
Social contagion - this is why the new surge in identity crisis is problematic - treating children with puberty blockers or surgery for gender confusion/insistance when it could be a phase brought on by influential trends, as teens have always been influenced by exposures around them in formative years.
I feel so strange about this "can't watch a video that's more than 10 minutes" because I formed an opposite habit where if a video is less than 30 minutes it's not worth my time because 10-20 minutes is too few to fully explore the topic.
And every time i watch a 5 hour video about some topic I know nothing about I feel so dissapointed because I want more. :(
I love how well rounded this video is, and how it considers both the positives and negatives of each platform. Thanks for this balanced take :)
Great video! I watched the whole thing. I am so happy this channel exists and that I happen to stumble upon it one day. Haven’t stopped watching since! Have a wonderful day!
This is a great documentary on the history behind social media. People think that starting something should immediately be shared online. Social media has only become a recent thing, 14 years ago. And you begin to notice over the years, that none of these companies let their family use their platforms, because of the intentional addiction. They have a successful business model, and you are the product of their product. Funny how that works.
Literally ALL of these problems could be solved by ending the monetary system entirely and permanently!
We need to change the incentive to change the behavior that results.
Sadly, I'm not sure we are smart enough to realize it.
We have ALWAYS been lied to about the reason money exists.
Money only exists to keep the wealthy, wealthy.
From the very beginning.
If we all knew that, money wouldn't exist. We would have been done with this system that deprives so many of so much many years ago.
But, better late than never, right?
End the monetary system and, instead, adopt a natural resource based economy.
Before money ends us all.
This is the first sensible comment with a radical scope I've read since... still here on RUclips. we should have a chat about all this.
The irony of this video having an unusually wholesome comments section ❤
Unironically have to finish this incredible work you've produced later because I'm overstimulated from work.
Million props to you @aperture You are the voice of people that are awake and aware of the devious plans of these hungry for power people on top.
May your videos always be available in the social world and reach endless people to help them snap out of this wretched delusion.
As bad as social media can be, the real travesty is the fact that Bella Thorne and CardiB make over $10 million a month on OnlyFans. That's more depressing than any statistic about depression rates caused by social media.
Then again, the fact that the person who runs this channel is only 24 years old, has over 2 million subs and is already more successful than I'll ever be is far more depressing than motivating to me.
Someone being successful early doesn’t mean you yourself cant succeed later in life. 24 isn’t a normal age to have a full career anyhow. Most people dont reach that until their 40s or 50s.
@@Window4503 You are absolutely correct. But it's hard to take that as reality when you see channels like this one or countless others, that are owned by kids in their late teens or early 20's, everywhere you look. Or when you're at a stop light and look over to see a kid who has to still be in high school sitting in the drivers seat of a BMW 5 series or a Camaro SS.
Then you decide to look into how these channels got successful, so that maybe you can get some ideas. But in your research, you discover that they posted videos for a few months, the algorithm picked them up, and the rest is history.
It's like talking to a successful businessman and they say "if you're just starting out, get a job at a big corporation and work your way up from there." But it's like, if I could get so much as a reply from a major corporation, I wouldn't be struggling...
I’ve went through a psychosis episode that sparked from TikTok ended up checking myself in hospital blaming TikTok as the cause
Really?
@@benderblopyeah
Amazing documentary. Thank you 😊
Thank you for this wonderful work :)
The thing i realized throughout the video, social media is never for our good unless it is balanced. Sadly the creators built them up to be as addictive as possible eliminating a realistic happy life.
Loved it!
I deleted all my social media apps after watching this video. Oh boy am i already struggling so bad. I really loved to scroll reddit and interact with people on discord even though i know these so called friends are fake. Social media and the people with it have brought me great suffering. So this is where i call it quits. I think about it but i know i shouldnt do it. Im going to put more effort into more meaningful hobbies from here on out.
It's a dream, within a dream, within another dream.
Snapchat is not good at all, the only reason I have it is because it’s the only app I have where I can talk with my friends. Every morning I get a picture of a wall with no subtext, how is that communication at all!?
This is one of the best videos i’ve ever watched
so glad i never got tiktok
Watching these kind of videos became new addiction...😢
Masterworks is total BS. The maintenance fees are absolutely absurd and then there's the additional checkout fee on sale.
At the beginning of all those social medias was fun, entertaining, people were rational, I was in most of all of them.
Then, trashy people started coming in, new generations with new mindset, or just the old ones that changed theirs for various reason...
Today I have only RUclips because of videos like this. Nor even Twitter that I had for 10 years was forgiven.
But what can we do, right? Humans are humans... Always doing '*'.
We can be anything but omniscient
Infinite scrolling feature I’ve seen first appear on blogs then on social was probably the dumbest invention from the coders.
Also what annoys me is I’ll have my Facebook on my desktop browser and have it idle for hours then to come back and have it automatically refresh and I miss what was just on the screen!
Clearly a design to manipulate people. I compare quitting social to throwing disco records at Shea Stadium in mass opposition to the genre but that makes people feel good destroying things instead of building something better without total nuclear opposition
wow u really came for all of us
I do appreciate social media showing me how much of a God awful species we are.
What's wild is without social media this information and important video wpuld not be as accessible
yo thank you for this I'm literally working on a research paper for school about social media's affect on mental health
goldmine for you 😅
I like the way you are bringing this knowledge! However, the video would be better with subtitles.
I'm glad I quit TikTok, if involuntarily (because my shitty phone couldn't run it) because I scrolled for hours every day and I hate myself for liking it
oof... the vid was great, but i do think the first part could be related to munchausen's or it only happens on extreme cases. i feel like it's more prone due to isolation, attention seeking behaviors or a need to belong in a community which could lead people to fake a disorder or attempt to get a diagnosis to grasp a sense of belonging online if they're already isolated in real life, as you've stated later on with teens misdiagnosing/self diagnosing only because they've found a few symptoms related. mass psychosis is quite radical to define these types of things. it's not my intention to disregard people's identities, but something similar happened during 2020 on tiktok with xenogenders. since it's happening mostly on teens it leads me to believe it's mostly to seek belonging rather than psychosis induced thanks to social media.
and regarding filters.. you are SO right. i don't film tiktoks or anything, but every now and then i'll get videos on my fyp about how "this filter makes everyone great!"... and it does. why? because it changes your nose, eyes, face shape, etc. and it bothers me beyond hell because if everyone's using it.. what's their real face? what's the purpose? sometimes i go on tiktok to find a filter with a certain color tint that i may not find on instagram and all i find is filters that contour or diminish your nose or face. it's quite sad when i think about it and sometimes i might not tell before switching to another filter and it feels especially horrible because i may have some form of body dysmorphia where i can't tell how my face & body look most of the time, so it does feel kinda odd or disappointing to find i look a certain way in a photo then completely different in another
sorry for the rant :( but i felt like i had to address at least the first part. as a teen i've met multiple people online who've done that (primarily during quarantine, isolation, etc). maybe it's not tiktok induced psychosis but it may be a need for a sense of belonging
I appreciate u good videos 🎉
My gf is in tiktok watching makeup and relationship videos that last 5 seconds and I'm on RUclips watching veritasium, various gaming streamers, vsauce, Tom Scott, Arvin ash... It's a fundamentally different type of content. Tiktok has no real "content" from my point of view
Right. This is why I never understand why folks in relationships use it. I prefer text or DM. I like "receipts"
This is an amazing video! So in-depth and accurate. I especially like how you touch on the scary subjects of governments using the social media regultion as an excuse to get more power over people. I agree whole-heartedly that they must clarify what they CANNOT do. That was the point of the Constitution.
I completely quit all social media a few years back. I’m 43 years old living with Tourette’s since the age of 4.
I never social media Use RUclips
if your head starts hurting .... put it away
the short time span is so true. when i was addicted to tiktok, i couldn't watch 10minutes video. i always skip it so it end fast. after i stop tiktok for a year, my time span bcome normal again
keep it real ❤
Nah bro I love your videos. The part talking about world being better than it seems was so comforting.
And then bang why tik tok is evil lol.
The only thing more addictive than short-form content that I've experienced is nicotine. Which young teens are also being exposed to.
The dark side of social media is the back of your phone where the screen and backlight ain't.
Can we just appreciate aperture not having ads besides in-video sponsorships?
I dont think it matters anymore. RUclips will run ads regardless of whether the creator gets a piece of the revenue. No matter how much you might want your content to not have ads, youtube will run them. Thats wy an adblock is so important or using a browser like Brave browser.
This just pushes the boundaries of generational gaps even more than what was already a problem. I’m 31 and have watched this unfold from my teens on FB all the way until this garbage started happening when I was 25. I deleted every social media app except YT and have never looked back. 31 will seem old to all these kids, but I hardly feel any different than 21, with the sole exception of not being able to communicate or interact with anyone under say, 23-24, it’s actually infuriating in a work setting, as these kids simply cannot fathom how an authority figure in the workplace HAS to have some control over their lives. The worst part of it is, if you try and discipline one of these kids for being 40 minutes late (happened this week) … they go to HR with some absolutely horrendous complaint, and YOU end up in bother. It’s absolutely infuriating tbh, I hate what has become of the west and our youth. How can society function if you can’t even tell an employee not to be late, for fear they will falsely accuse you of something. Also, I don’t care what anyone says, young women are 10x worse when it comes to this. As a manger, I have FAR more problems trying to deal with these attention seeking, entitled young women, than any of the male employees under me.
Cope
as much as I want to believe you, you are being admittedly vague.
@@khamzarauan1132So does that mean you’re one of them?
@@christinejohnson133Vague? What do you expect? Names and an address? My roommate deals with coworkers like that regularly. Not sure how it’s automatically suspect unless you simply want it to be.
Has nothing to do with the video and now you're just generalizing and being mysogynistic
For me, if a video on a heavy topic is only like 10-11 min long I don't watch it. I don't like short videos in general. I can detect really fast when something is made to be heavily monetized. there's just no way you can cover a deep topic that can take hours to discuss in just 10 min. You can't speed run everything. You can't explain shit in 3 minutes.
i really liked your the devil you know vs the angel you don't line (i'd say its more complicated than that but still)
“Onlyfans takes 20% of your profit and 0% of your trauma” it’s true tbh most of the women who do it have severe psychological scars from it, almost all of them saying that having normal intimate relationships are difficult.
It’s sad that people think they can be demeaning and dehumanizing to a sex worker. The rape/death threats are absolutely psychotic as well. It’s a harsh truth, but that’s part of the territory and that’s how people will treat you when you dehumanize and overly sexualize yourself. It’s not as glamorous or financially advantageous to do it as people think and I wish more people talked about it because it’s an important thing to understand the ramifications of what you can potentially face. Sure, you can control means of production, but is it worth it when you make pennies and deal with the most horrible threats and most weird type of men? Part of the “pimp and prostitute” relationship that works is the pimp will often provide some level of physical protection. If you are going solo, you have no protection and you have to rely on your own skills and abilities to navigate the industry. It’s extremely dangerous. I don’t envy anyone who has to constantly be looking over their back honestly. That’s such a horrid and sad way to live. 😢
OF is also a totally saturated market. There are thousands of women that dont get any attention at all because there's just so many of them. You cant make a living doing that. Most women cant and its kind of a reality check for lots of women who thought their appearance was God's gift to men.
RUclips is addictive too
Let’s be real here:
1. nobody called Reddit blackout “reddark”
2. The moderators were criticized more than reddit itself in the end
3. It accomplished absolutely nothing
4. The moment reddit admins said they would oust moderators blocking subreddits, the mods were very quick to comply, they like their “power” after all.
great video
amazing video
1:00:16 thank you I needed to hear that from somewhere
people who use social media will be compensated in the future for the damage it did to their brains….
That's interesting that you mentioned a fable from the Aeta people. As you may know, they are the original inhabitants of the Philippines akin to the Aboriginals in Australia.
speaking of TikTok, i watched a few videos about people and their experiences with living with Autism, i related to most of the things they said but i brushed it off because i don’t like to use the internet to diagnose myself, but since i interacted with those videos, it kept showing me more and i related to more of the things people said about Autism so that made me start doing research, after 2 years of research i found out that there’s a possibility that i could be on the spectrum, but unfortunately i can’t get a diagnosis because of financial issues so i’m basically stuck, i’ve also talked to my mom about it and after doing research with her she believes that i may be on the spectrum too, maybe about a month after i started doing research i deleted TikTok just to make sure i wasn’t tricking my brain into thinking i have autism and also because it’s extremely toxic and it made my mental health decrease RAPIDLY
i feel like RETCHING just by remembering "tooth file challenge" was a thing, i can't ever fucking imagine anyone sane actually doing this crap