Sorry if the title gives you the feeling of condescension in the title but by Intellectual, I mean people who can assess the situation and can act according to

Sorry if the title gives you the feeling of condescension in the title but by Intellectual, I mean people who can assess the situation and can act according to it. The people who know right and wrong about it. I am from India and here I can guarantee you that 95% of people are not even aware of whats going on in this social media ecosystem. What it does, what the impact of it and everything. And hence I felt like why people who know that it's bad why they cant get rid of it. Now coming to your points. - The human need for social connection (I really feel that nobody really get some valuable interaction out of any social media. The only exception being when you talk to someone special and someone you won't have access directly in your circle.) I think what most people relate to social interaction is via liking other people's posts and also getting your post being liked in return which is equivalent to your 4 point getting the dopamine hit and boosting your ego. - Ignorance point is right but its also being complemented with the fact that they are being bombarded with these values that these companies have cooked to tell that whatever they are doing clicking and scrolling is somehow adding value to their lives. - I agree with your 4th point Ego is the only thing that we get as in case of dopamine hit. But do you really want to go that path? - Fast food equivalent of catching up but again my same argument ? are you really catching up ? or is it the just fake perception of catching up? - I am running out of time but I also disagree with your last two points about losing contact and detachment because I don't think these things are fulfilled by them. It's just fake values that we start believing in and start perceiving how to be in contact and detachment the way these big companies want us to believe.