What drives people to social media?

It’s actually quite simple. People like to be liked. Research shows that when a social media user gets “Liked” or received positive feedback, it fires off the old “dopamine receptor”, the feel-good hormone. Social media giants take advantage of this to raid your brain and make you suggestable. So is being liked really that important so as to give up your soul to belong. I don’t think so. SMU’s (social media users) exhibit several traits that, in any other context, are destructive. It doesn’t matter if you’re 16 or 60, momentary thrill of being liked by anonymous people, (who may be bots), erodes your brain. Artificial self-worth is worthless and fleeting. See how
many of these traits you see when you look in the mirror.

User traits:

ab-Noxious – as the saying goes “opinions are like assholes, everybody has one”. But is it worth sharing? SMUs share because
they can no matter how lame the opinion.

Needy – please like me. Please help me. I can’t find a plumber or if I give you a thumb’s up will you like me too?

Naive – in many cases SMUs have no idea with whom they are interacting. It could be that sweet 16-year-old high school student or retired schoolteacher who’d like to meet for coffee. But it could just as easily be the boogie man.

a-Nnoying – a large number of SMUs are just downright annoying. Reading their post or comment on a post makes you want to throttle them.

Narcissistic – what’s a narcissist without and audience? Nothing.

For the sake of your mental health, reevaluate your social media presence. In many cases your simply supplies information to an invisible giant to be used against you. In some cases, it’s more sinister.