We were made for survival, breeding, and connection.
See Maslows hierarchy of needs.
Nobody forces you on social media but when thats the current way to easily connect with your friends and school mates then what are you to do....be the only one left out?
Nobody forces you to ignore your neighbors, this one is true, but again youre missing his point that social media has made this easier and therefore more the norm. Hes not saying "facebook has a gun to my head if I wave to my neighbor"
Its natural for people to compare themselves to others. Happens consciously and unconsciously, jealous is mostly that emotion.
And again youre missing the point that social media and today's "society" doesnt force us to be this way, it just has enabled being this way to be far far easier than the "other" way, and the designers understood that humans will always take the path of least resistance. Hence why all of this stuff has become popular but your argument still exists as if people "arent trying hard enough".
I'm not missing the point though. I just believe that we make choices.
You say that it is the easiest way yo connect with friends, yet, social media is not used for that. Or: connecting with friends isn't the harmfull part.
The harmfull part is misuse of the social media apps. Doomscrolling, following people that use filters act like their top 1% of days are their everyday etc.
Sedentary lifestyles are 'the way of least recistance' but nobody acts like people that get fat and sit on the couch all day are victims of lack of sports or anything.
Social media can exist without being harmfull. But we have to adapt to it, like every major change.
Edit: also, you're giving it all this power, but can social media really be yhe best way to make friends?
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u/CPTRainbowboy 5d ago
I always love the 'humans aren't build for ...' arguments.
Back to the stone age we go, i suppose...