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I Think Social Media Does More Harm Than Good

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“Social media generate dopamine, associated with pleasure, and hence can drive addiction. The main problem is that when dopamine goes up, serotonin goes down. So, online communication is actually a major causative factor of unhappiness. Lustig also elaborates on how companies — both food manufacturers and electronics companies — capitalize on the biology of dopamine versus serotonin to get us addicted to their products. “ [b]~ Dr. Joseph Michael Mercola[/b], in a review of [i]“The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains”[/i] by [b]Robert H. Lustig, M.D.[/b] [c=#BF0000]http://amzn.to/2x3ZiJL[/c]

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CopperCicada · M

Internet media in general has profound cognitive effects. Content draws interest by triggering us and this uncalibrates our senses of risk and reward. Content also panders to confirmation and story bias. The short formatting of content and hyperlinking renders us unable to focus on long narratives and complex problems and we lose our ability to forrage for information. It also distorts our sense of what is important. Combining that with the neurochemical effects you mention and the whole of the internet is largely poison without applying ration and discipline.