The most pervasive form of addiction of our century is social media addiction.
At first I was going to write “the most pervasive form of addiction of internet generation is social media”, but that doesn’t capture the extent of it. I have seen a 90 year old great-grandpa look at social media and miss real moments at a family gathering due to social media addiction, so it’s definitely not only the younger generation that is affected by this but all that have internet access need to put some serious guardrails on their usage, such as abstaining during the day.
Abstain from Social Media during the Day
On the habit regarding social media and abstaining during the day.
Remember: It’s not the single check of social media (Reddit, LinkedIn, etc.) it’s the trajectory for the day, to let you mind crave cheap-dopamine, once you take that first hit.
Abstaining completely for the day until evening is doable. But re-abstaining over and over again during the day is much harder if you took that first hit. So when it comes to social media during the day total abstaining is the way to go.
Link to originalRegarding Social Media
All these (social media) companies are very smart. They have very good data scientists. They have very good UI specialists … You’re bringing a knife to a gunfight if you think you can use your self-control to keep your use of Instagram to, say, 10 minutes - tim-ferris/pod clip
Link to original~If you can’t be bored for 5-10 minutes, then it makes you very fragile and makes you very easy to manipulate. tim-ferris/podclip