The Technology of Confusion
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0.000 HBDThe Technology of Confusion
<html> <h1>The Technology of Confusion</h1> <blockquote> “Social Media Sites Creates illusion of connectivity .” - Malay Shah</blockquote> <p><img src="https://wersm.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/wersm-social-media-addiction.png" width="850" height="500"/></p> <h2>Do you <em>Love </em>Facebook?</h2> <p>The main incentive to join Facebook was to <em><strong>connect</strong></em><strong> </strong>with friends and family, right? You would scroll your news feed, see photos of your friends and then click the "Like" button. But <em>then </em>something happened! You received multiple friend request from "friends of friends", then before you knew it, you had 1000 friends. Is it <em>normal </em>to be connected with so many people, especially when you've never met those people face-to-face? </p> <p><em><strong>Despite these things, we still use Facebook without questioning...</strong></em></p> <p>Certain Medical studies suggest that social media sites stimulate a chemical within our brain called <strong>dopamine</strong>. Dopamine is produced when we feel <em>pleasure</em> or <em>pain. </em>Facebook has psychologically manipulated it's platform to make our brains produce the <em>pleasure</em> chemical of dopamine when we use Facebook. <em><strong>How So? </strong></em>Well, when our photos get more likes, we assume that we are <em><strong>loved </strong></em>by our friends, and it makes us feel happy.</p> <p><img src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4CYLjo465JI/maxresdefault.jpg" width="1920" height="1080"/></p> <h2>Instagram, the <em>woman's </em>trap?</h2> <p>Studies have found that 68% of Instagram users are women, which is quite <strong>alarming</strong>. This suggests that Instagram is attractive towards women, <em>but why?</em> Instagram is a picture based social media, where the main niche happens to be the fashion industry. We all know how much women <em>love </em>fashion, clothes, and so forth. Furthermore, modelling is very big on Instagram, and it so happens that women feel that the models they see on Instagram are setting the trends of beauty.</p> <p><em><strong>What women fail to realize is that 70% of the models on Instagram are photo shopped!</strong></em></p> <p><img src="https://reflectiveponderer.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/phone.gif?w=300&h=192" width="300" height="192"/></p> <h2>Conclusion...</h2> <p>There is a correlation between the amount of smartphone usage and social media conditioning. It really boils down to how <em><strong>you</strong></em> use social media and what <em><strong>you</strong></em> use it for... </p> </html>