It makes you so unproductive

It makes you so unproductive:

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It makes you so unproductive.

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Wasting away time.

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Aimlessly scrolling through the same 5 apps.

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Looking for the next dopamine hit.

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You look up and all of a sudden an hour is gone.

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Damn.

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Is this what people are doing these days?

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Yea.

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Wasting away their time on phone apps posed as drugs.

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Remember this, social media is cocaine for the masses. 

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It’s made us all addicts.

People can’t even stop to think.

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Every time my brother is at a red light, he checks his phone.

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He checks Twitter or Instagram for the next dopamine hit.

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I bet he’s not even the exception, he’s the rule.

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We need a shake-up.

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We need these companies to change their business model.

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In the name of capitalism, these big tech companies are destroying human minds.

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They’re destroying attention.

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They’re destroying people’s ability to think for themselves.

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They’re destroying people’s ability to be present.

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All in the name of money.

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Remember, you are the product, not the customer.

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Companies paying for ads are the customer.

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Your attention is the product and it’s being monetized to the highest bidder.

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Your life just passes by while these companies make billions destroying your ability to focus.

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Now there are a lot of positives.

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The amount of knowledge being created and shared by creators all over the world is astounding.

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The kings of the Internet will soon be the new kings of society.

That’s where the world is moving.

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No one cares about Barbara Walters, Walter Kronkite or Larry King on a traditional network anymore.

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They’re paying attention to Mr. Beast, Joe Rogan or Lex Fridman.

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The smartest people in the world are turning to podcasts and social media instead of traditional investigative journalists because it feels more honest.

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It feels more authentic.

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But they’re also heavily criticized.

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Social media has allowed strangers to comment on your appearance and identity 24/7.

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Social media has pushed the comparison trap to the center of everyone’s mind.

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It makes you believe that everyone online has a perfect life.

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It doesn’t show you the darkness we all feel inside.

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It doesn’t show you the lonely hours sitting there wishing you had someone to talk to.

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It doesn’t show you the hours people spend perfecting a picture no one cares about.

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My sister had a friend visit her in New York recently and she spent 45 minutes figuring out a caption for an Instagram story.

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It’s insane to me.

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45 minutes hoping people double-tap their phone for 2 seconds before moving on to the next thing.

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Social media has done the exact opposite of making us social.

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It’s made us shy and afraid.

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It’s made us pay more attention to a digital persona rather than who we are as a person.

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It’s forced us to care more about the fake world rather than the one presented in front of us.

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I sound like a guy telling people to get off my lawn but the writing on the wall is so clear.

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The incentive structure and business model of social media is destroying a generation of kids’ ability to think and process the world around them.

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It’s not healthy. 

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I need to cut back and how ironic is it to say this as I begin to build a media company?

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It just makes you so unproductive

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