The lie of Chapter 5: Social Media

 The lie of Chapter 5: Social Media

Nowadays every smartphone users are on social media. We all know that social media platforms are always helpful but today I will take you to the dark and unknown reality of all these social media platforms.


All social media platforms- Youtube, Reddit, Instagram, Facebook have the same algorithm and the algorithm is that they want the users to spend maximum of their time on their platforms. People get addicted to social media because the platform itself wants to you to get addicted to it. Lets do an experiment For 1 hour keep your phone aside. After 1 hour you will see that there are so many notifications. The platforms sends us so many notifications because that one single notification popup is more than enough to tempt the user and make him/her use the platform.

We humans love to know people's opinion about us and social media takes advantage of that factor. Why do you think that every time when a person likes your photo/video we get a notification? So that you go back to their platform and spend some more time.

On You Tube if you watch one video- for example a cooking video then your entire recommendation is filled with videos of that specific cooking (for eg Cooking Shooking). Now every time you will open You Tube you will only see Cooking Shooking videos. Because again they want you to spend maximum time on their social media platforms.

The more you use Facebook the more the platforms know about you and gives you recommendation according to your taste. They want that your hands are always scrolling down and down and then they use you and your data. I am not talking about you or me. I am talking about the entire world. The entire world has entered the social media matrix.

You have no idea that how many people commit suicide just because they get less likes on their photos. This will not decrease but this will increase. Social media in the next 20 years will create such a matrix that it can affect humanity at a massive level.

"REMEMBER WHEN YOU DONT PAY FOR THE PRODUCT THEN YOU ARE PRODUCT. NOW YOU DECIDE WHETHER YOU ARE USING SOCIAL MEDIA OR THE SOCIAL MEDIA IS USING YOU."

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