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Being online leads to a deep mental disturbance that just grows and grows. It's like you're hungry and you're reading through an endless stack of menus with th
by swayvil 6y ago
Being online leads to a deep mental disturbance that just grows and grows.
It's like you're hungry and you're reading through an endless stack of menus with this weird idea that the menus will sate your hunger. And you just keep on reading, about sandwiches, pizza and Chinese food. But none of the reading helps. You just keep on getting hungrier.
I think that the Buddhists talk about this state, in their version of Hell.
It's only natural that this would lead to "demoniacal" behavior.
- exo-pla-net 6y agoYou're being downvoted, but studies suggest your intuition is correct. People engage with social media at least in part out of social urges. However, consumption of social media leads to increased feelings of loneliness: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/is-a-steady-diet-of-social-media-unhealthy-2018122115600 https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/is-a-steady-diet-of-soci... So, social media is indeed a diet that just makes one hungrier. But does loneliness lead to more aggressive / "bullying" behavior? This hasn't been well studied, but evidence suggests this is the case: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/comm/malamuth/pdf/85jspr2.pdf http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/comm/malamuth/pdf/85jspr2.pdf