Why our outdated brains are making us unhappy
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#2This goes for just about all "social media", and just one of the factors for my removal from them. The other being toxic communities.
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#3This goes for just about all "social media", and just one of the factors for my removal from them. The other being toxic communities.
Parts of the cycle are also relevant for community forums such as HN.
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#5This goes for just about all "social media", and just one of the factors for my removal from them. The other being toxic communities.
Parts of the cycle are also relevant for community forums such as HN.
Definitely. But the information I get from here makes my life productive. I am a civil engineer and sometimes I have no idea what half the words are that people say around here. But I get to learn something new everyday. It's just a guarantee.
But with social media, their business model is to make me click on or look at things. That's just where it ends for them. And the productivity value is just not there. Yes, you can find helpful information, but I have to sift through so much noise.
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#6also important: your friends always have more friends/likes than you.
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#7What I've noticed is that Instagrams recommendation algorithms are creepily accurate.
If you like browsing pictures of butts you'll get lots of butts and of the exact kind that you'd like. I'm not sure how they do it. I don't even post on Instagram. And yet I'm addicted now to the Explore tab. They've genuinely managed to build something addictive in a way that other networks are not.
Also Instagram is completely sanitized of politics and any other hot button stuff. So its just a space where you zone out.
Instagram is the crack cocaine of social media. A cocktail of addiction and narcissism refined into its most potent form. I predict that Instagram will continue to grow and might one day rival Facebook itself.
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#8To be honest I found instagram much more real than other social media platforms. Especially the story modus seems to make people more open to show their real emotions even when they are unhappy.
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#9> Today, we live in a completely different world as our ancestors. Yet, our biology is still exactly the same.
Is that really true? I've heard this kind of argument so many times that it seems right, but I've rarely seen any scientific evidence to back it up. Surely our bodies have evolved in some subtle and diverse ways over many thousands of generations?
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#10also important: your friends always have more friends/likes than you. edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_paradox
Not a contradiction, it's a statistical certainty.