How Social Media is Effective on students Life?

Read this before you start using Social Media

Many of the social media companies across the world hire individuals who are Engineers that design their channel to keep a longer audience interaction.

In Gambling there are many companies that first give the user the profit and then they make him the fish.

Initially, people invest $10 in the Gamble and then earns $50 within a short time.

This makes them addicted to playing and one day end up losing all.

In Gambling the one who earns thinks of to earn more and the one who loses has a desire to recover the invested sum.

This makes him addicted to the play again and get caught in the same way as a fish in the river.

The Engineers working with social media companies make their users as addicted as possible to their platform.

So when the user has a lot of engagement on their social media channel, they make use of it.

They collect all the information of their users which include one or more of the following

• Name
• Email
• Work
• Hobbies
• Area of Interest
• Gender
• Age
• Health
• Insurance
• Family Info
• Mutual connections
• Schools or Colleges

More the number of users, the more they make money by selling all the information.

Have you experienced a phone call carrying some information that best relates you.

This is because social media channels know everything about you, where you are, what are you doing, etc.

This is my personal summary representing an example: -

I took my dad to hospital on 16th November 2019 at 2 am in the midnight as he had a breathing issue.

Later on after changing 2 to 4 hospitals according to my family budget we came to know we had to do CABG.

CABG is an open heart surgery for treating heart failures and we completed it in hospital and my dad got discharged.

Suddenly I started noticing that I received text messages and Insurance Phone calls as my Information was out to these companies.

It is quite obvious that insurance and health check-up companies are likely to get a customer like me if they call me at this right time.

Social media gets paid for our every information we give them and they transfer this to companies and get paid in both ways.

We are at the point now where there are such tools that are tearing apart the social thread on how society works or it used to be.

How Social Media attracts you?

These companies offer something magic in exchange for your attention and time with your personal data.

Then they gather more information about you and package it up with another such one community interests and sell them out.

For Example whenever we open any page after a long duration, they show us 98 Notifications, 10 watch TV, 28 messages in the inbox that makes us drive crazy for it.

We get relaxed and the chemical named dopamine gets released in the brain that serves a pleasure for the mind.

This pleasure increases with time as addiction to social media are more and remains constant until it explodes one day.

The social media tools themes and codes are designed in such a way that they make people addicted to it.

The user starts giving more and more attention to these attractive and responsive tools that make users' moods.

This addiction gets increased with time and your concentration gets reduced with it.

This is because the user gets panic and worried about their social media account.

Users upload a profile photo or any graphic design they create and now wait for the likes and comments to appear on the feed.

These make the user nervous about very short likes and comments on profile photos and get stressed out.

Especially the young generation is getting more involved with social media for getting more likes which have nothing to do with their career.

This makes them dull and short in memory to concentrate on their studies and exams.

Like in Gambling games, if you pull the slot machine arm in the casino you will win, but have you ever thought why someone would pay you only for pulling the arm of slot machine.

In this way everyone would have started playing casino in Goa or Vegas whichever suitable.

This addiction to particular behavior is the dopamine effect that makes the brain more comfortable, relax, and stress-free.

Researcher Robert Sapolsky1 calls social media as magic when you look at the phone for an expected notification which is there or not there.

When this habit of checking mobile device for no reason turns high, that's the dopamine magic of maybe or may not be.

The hike in dopamine with the effect is roughly the same amount as you get from cocaine less than extreme.

This is what happens with students and teenagers that check out phones every now and then without any reason.

I have been through this a lot and here is my personal experience with this again.

I made a habit of uploading photos on social media as a profile picture and started getting likes and comments.

I also made a study when uploaded it on Saturday and Sundays the number of likes and comments was more.

So commenting replies to everyone on weekends gave more likes and comments and made my mood a lot.

This turned out to be my hobby to check out my phone every now and then & also I got stressed when the number of likes and comments were not satisfying me.

This also started making me jealous of other people's photos present on social media that got more likes than mine.

I also started thinking in a negative way about my friends who didn't like my photos as I was stupid enough not to understand the algorithm.

The limit crossed when my mobile lost one night and I now started feeling depressed.

The 2 days after I lost my mobile and my Blood pressure had alterations because of which doctor suggested I should not think much about it.

Yet I purchased Lenovo vibe k 5 note devices on the 4th day as I recognized it had been my second heart.

This way I never recognized I had made my mobile as my other important body part after heart.

This is how it works, as we uploaded profile photos and they send notifications about the number of people who liked the photo.

This feels so honorable and respective and we open the mobile devices to check out again and again.

Algorithms decide how long to keep your profile picture in the people's news feed so that people like your photo and you get notified every time.

Meanwhile, they suggest you watch the videos or you like something and get engaged with it for a couple of hours.

So when you do not get likes more than expected you get sad and nervous and start comparing yourself with others.

Another example of this is alcohol drinking releases a lot of dopamine and makes a good mood.

But it’s always recommended not to drink as it is harmful to us.

Drinking alcohol and smoking a cigarette has various age rules in different countries so it is restricted but this is not the case in social media addiction.

Social media are the most addictive things in the hands of students without any defense they know for it.

How to get prevented from Social Media?

To bring this down under control you have to do the checklist: -

• Do they provide you Knowledge?
• Do they teach how to do?
• Is it time-wasting?
• Does it have anything to do with your career?
• Do they teach what’s good or bad?

If the answers are yes you should plan and decide the amount of time to be spent on social media.

If the answer is no then you must try doing the thing that will make your career rather than spending more time on social media.

They represent only the one part of our lives and do not represent the truth of our life.

Social media designs our graphics and makes a collection of photos and events that include one or more of: -

• Drinking Champagne
• Orchestra and Band
• Hotel Dinner
• Amusement Parks
• Holiday

The topics you post on social media can be one or more that you post and are not the real you.

The real you who have sleeping problems, career problems, and any other health problem that you do not care about.

This turns up comparing other people's fake parts of their lives and as a target to become like them which is not the truth either.

Comparing yourself with others creates low confidence and depression within you for the other fake things people do on social media.

Few amazing facts in the past: -

Before android, the older short phones used to cover the major part of mobile by numbers and special characters.

The intention was only for increasing telecommunication among each other.

The horse and the cycle were the old way of transportation until cars introduced.

You can’t stop comparison as you have no answer to that but you have to change the goal or the object.

You only have to measure yourself by yourself, and you will start enjoying this when you stop putting pressure on yourself to be more like others.

So the Bottom line is: -

1. Stop comparing with others and do not use it as a source of wasting time.
2. Decide why you have to use social media?
3. Act something real that represents you.
4. Make use of social media to provide some information worth it.
5. Social Media is not evil if it's taken a good way.