Five Crazy Ways That Social Media Is Changing Your Brain Right Now

• We waste a lot of time on social media and we don’t see the world around us. My priorities are not in the real world, but are in the Internet.
• It’s easy to connect to other people, and that makes me more lazy, because I just need to open my computer to connect to people.
• We can easily find information, so we don’t need to go to the library and read a book. As well, this information isn’t always correct.
• We’ve lost the ability to remember things like phone numbers and birthdays.
• It impacts our judgement. There is too much information. Everyone talks about the same subject, gets the same opinion and that influences me.
• In the past, we would wait a week or more for a letter from our friends. Now we send a message and get a reply in a second. We used to be excited to receive letters and now we’re not.
• It’s a different style of communication with social media compared to communicating face to face. It may make it harder to communicate face to face.

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• It makes us addicted like to an illegal drug.
• It takes our attention from the world.
• It damages our memory skills.
• We think our phone is vibrating / buzzing when it’s not. So our nervous system is being rewired / changed physically.
• We focus on ourselves (me, me, me) more than face to face.
• Dopamine is released and dopamine makes us feel good, so we use our phone again, etc. etc. etc.
• Marriages are stronger between people who meet online. Why?

= people are clear about the things they want in a relationship.

What’s your feeling about using social media now after watching the video?