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I decided to share my deep analysis of social media (mainly Instagram). This was written long ago in my iNotes but I decided to share it because it may help others significantly. By the way, this is related to Hyperreality #4: Hyper-personality from UNSCRIPTED . Please note that this analysis is about using Instagram for personal purposes, not business purposes.
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Deep Research and Analysis Of Social Media
Main Social Media Platform: Instagram
Biggest Negatives Of Instagram (Summary):
View Diddy Video: http://instagr.am/p/BeGGTIEAuRT/
Instagram Users:
There Will Be 2 Groups of Human Psychology In The World Soon:
Social media apps will obliterate any threats that will decrease time spent on their apps.
The biggest threat to them:
Resources & Other Related Material To Support My Analysis:
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Deep Research and Analysis Of Social Media
Main Social Media Platform: Instagram
Biggest Negatives Of Instagram (Summary):
- 100+ negatives and almost 0 benefits of using Instagram for personal purposes (different than business purposes)
- wastes time & significantly interferes with short-term and long-term goals (you can never get back time)
- checking up on people’s lives for no reason instead of levelling up yourself = super waste
- changes your brain negatively through neuroplasticity (worst)
- hurts short-term and long-term ability to focus
- hurts short-term and long-term attention span
- hurts short-term and long-term ability to be productive
- hurts short-term and long-term ability to sustain concentration
- huge negative cognitive effects in the long-term
- hurts dopamine receptors in your brain
- interacting in a fake, unrealistic, fantasy world where only 1-2% is real, 98-99% is fake
- am I making more money for myself or am I just making Instagram money?
- subconscious comparison to fake lives and a fake reality
- subconscious false-estimation of your social status in the social hierarchy
- gossip
- memes
- funny videos
- info on people’s lives
- narcissists (“me, me, me, look at me, look what I’m doing”)
- rare important news
- the feeling of “FOMO” and being lonely
- worrying about what other people are doing = HUGE waste of time
- possible sexual interactions
- short-term entertainment and humour (dopamine)
- Instagram models and “soft porn”
- saving TIME (can never get it back)
- more TIME to:
- achieve my goals
- level up bank account
- level up business
- level up health/body/mind
- level up real relationships
- level up happiness and fulfillment
- improved attention span
- improved focus
- improved deep work ability
- increase in productivity
- increase in happiness
- spending attention wisely
- spending time wisely
- accelerated path to achieving goals
- AND PREVENTING ALL NEGATIVES MENTIONED
- Bill Gates & Warren Buffets #1 Word & Secret For Success = Focus
- Biggest Obstacle To Success = Opposite of Focus
- Opposite of Focus = Distraction
- Biggest Distraction = Your Phone + Social Media + Other People
- people show the rare 98% of their life (highlight reel)
- people show fake happiness and fulfillment
- this causes a fear of missing out
- this causes comparison, which is the #1 source of unhappiness in humans
- worst part: comparison to unrealistic and fake reality/world where people only show their best and brightest moments
- similar to watching a 2-minute highlight video of a 90-minute soccer game
- constantly checking your social hierarchal status on a fake social network
- huge suffering from contrast bias and comparison to a fake reality
- #1 source of unhappiness: comparison
- “Don’t worry about what anybody else is doing. Focus on yourself. Life-long habit of not worrying about anybodies life.”
- "The people who care less about what other people think about them tend to have a better life.”- Gary Vaynerchuk
- “Social media has created jealous behaviour over illusions. Some of you are envious of things, relationships, and lifestyles that don’t even exist.”
- worrying about what other people are doing = HUGE waste of time
- study shows that 60% of Instagram posts are selfies (6 out of 10 posts)
- selfies = “me, me, me, me, me, me, look at me, look what I’m doing”
- 98% of things are fake/unrealistic on Instagram
- Instagram is a highlight-reel, everybody shows the 2% of rare highlights in their lives
- nobody shows their real self-image on social media
- ex. girls take 60 pictures to find 1 that looks the best
View Diddy Video: http://instagr.am/p/BeGGTIEAuRT/
Instagram Users:
- the most active people on Instagram are the ones who have a lot of psychological problems
- the 70% of people in the world with psychological problems can mostly be found on Instagram
- Instagram is full of narcissists
- High Narcissism people
- High Machiavellian people
- High Psychopathy people
- Instagram is the absolute BEST environment for:
- high narcissism people
- high proud/pride
- posers and fake people (high narcissism and high mack)
- very easy to fake a life/lifestyle
- ex. fyre festival
- ex. people paying Instagram picture studios in a private jet
- ex. fake “entrepreneurs”
- the users of the app are not to blame because it’s basic human psychology; blame the engineers and developers and people that are profiting from our attention and psychological tendencies (Instagram/Mark Zuckerberg)
- designed by the SMARTEST people who understand human psychology and behaviour
- designed to take as much ATTENTION as possible from you per day
- their intelligence = millions of dollars for Instagram.. they’re smart
- social media and Instagram is constructed around envy and increases envy
- Jealousy: sometimes motivational jealousy
- Envy: social frustration and seeking the worst for people
- Envy and Jealousy encourages repeat app opens and stalking (spending more time)
- Love and Happiness DOES NOT encourage repeat app opens and stalking, the developers know this
- Facebook engineers admitted that they built ADDICTION into the platforms by fostering negative emotions and pathology (envy, jealousy, etc.)
- literally designed to be addictive and designed for compulsive checking and attention- addictive curiosity
- similar to the slot machine at casinos
- THE NEED TO CHECK YOUR PHONE = an addiction (not normal)
- social media gets you to react (short-term dopamine)
- short term dopamine driven feedback loops = detrimental to brain
- negative neuroplasticity and significantly hurts dopamine receptors
- you are being programmed to change your brain in a positive way for Instagram and a negative way for yourself
- Instagram developers leverage this dopamine to get your addicted
There Will Be 2 Groups of Human Psychology In The World Soon:
- People Who Use Social Media
- People Who Don’t Use Social Media
- both lives will be significantly different
- both psychologies will be significantly different
- it will be the biggest binary group in the world
- people with social media will have the most psychological problems
- people without social media will have the least psychological problems
- similar to 75% of the world having a disease and 25% being healthy
- Instagram Changes Your Brain Through Neuroplasticity
- Focus, Attention Span, Productivity, Time
- decreases attention span significantly
- decreases ability to focus significantly
- you lose your ability to sustain concentration (neuroplasticity)
- changes your brain
- hurts productivity significantly
- time-killer
- creates compulsive checking habit
- constantly checking phone = fragmented attention = neuroplasticity = can permanently hurt long-term ability to sustain attention and focus
- hurts dopamine receptors in your brain
- Socially
- makes you less social
- hurts social skills and fakes social life
- decreases self-esteem
- decreases happiness due to comparison
- limits face to face interactions
- creates a “FOMO” and makes you believe that you’re out of the loop
- social media makes you feel lonely on Friday and Saturday nights cause people are posting their highlights but never Monday or Sunday
- social positioning in the hierarchy
- competition
- information collecting
- sexual purposes
- social life
- lonely people
- separated people
- nerd-like people
- socially awkward people
- psychologically unstable people (narcissists)
Social media apps will obliterate any threats that will decrease time spent on their apps.
The biggest threat to them:
- a mature person
- a healthy person
- a self-aware person
- a person who knows everything mentioned in this note
- THEY NEED YOUR ATTENTION
- THEY MONETIZE YOUR ATTENTION AND NEED YOUR EYEBALLS
- ANYTHING THAT COMPETES WITH THEM FOR YOUR ATTENTION = THREAT
- Facebook does not allow Google to crawl their database
- Anything that takes you away from Instagram = THREAT
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