50 THE TRUTH: Social Feeds Are Worse Than Crack

• If there was a pharmaceutical that acted as a social feed, it would be banned
• Social feeds are designed to find out what your buttons are and then to push them to keep you in a constant state of outrage
• This is why Facebook, Instagram, etc drive FOMO and for some, self-harm
• These algorithms exist purely to drive you to specific kinds of emotions mostly outrage - they keep you scrolling and viewing and tapping
• They want you to be outraged all of this time - which is why most of what you see on these feeds is "fake", designed or presented in such a way as to drive your emotions
• How do you deal with this - now that you understand that your feed is designed to learn your buttons then press them, stop letting it - either step away or don't let it bother you so much.