There's an incredible cultural contempt for social media, everyone recognizes the harms, but we collectively spend more and more time on social media apps.
Wat mean?
There's an incredible cultural contempt for social media, everyone recognizes the harms, but we collectively spend more and more time on social media apps.
Wat mean?
Ask yourself the same question but replace "social media" with "tobacco"
That seems like a bizarre comparison. Is TikTok high in nicotine?
Have you ever tried quitting smoking?
Easy. I've done it five times in the last three years alone.
I don't think this is what quitting means, or was that part of the joke?
That was the joke: it's not easy to quit smoking.
It means it's addictive
Alternatively, it may mean that people are largely hypocritical, and evaluate themselves and other people by different standards.
When I have true contempt for something, I find in quite easy to quit.
There are things I am likely addicted to that I don’t like. I wish I didn’t do them and could stop, but I don’t have contempt for them. I have contempt for social media and even tell my own mother I won’t join when she tells me it would make her so happy if I was on Facebook.
I have observed people who objectively were destroying their lives and yet they themselves were happily in denial.
The clichéd and sadly true "I am in control I can stop everything is fine".
Humans are strange.
1. Because people like it. 2. “Social media” is not the right term to describe those apps anymore. There’s nothing social about them - just an algorithm feeding you stuff. True social media aren’t that different from forums - places where you can interact with other people (in either healthy or unhealthy way).