Is social media website a new drug?

Antonio Matteo

I have been told by a friend that social media sites (facebook, tictok, Instagram…etc) and hard drugs like (cocoin, heroin, weed…etc) has similar effect in human brain, and I’m so scared. Just to be sure, if it’s true?

Luigi Bros Italiano

Antonio Matteo It is not accurate to classify social media as a drug. While some studies have suggested that social media use may activate the dopamine of same brain circuits associated with addiction, social media is not a drug in the traditional sense of the word. Rather, it is a technology tool that enables online communication and information-sharing. The effects of social media use on mental health and well-being are complex and can vary based on factors such as frequency and type of usage, individual characteristics, and other contextual factors. However, it is important to note that like any other tool or activity, social media use should be used in moderation and in a way that is safe and healthy for individual users.

Abdulfattah Ogirima Yusuf

Antonio Matteo Social media apps may have negative effect as drug but they are not drugs. Effect like time wasteage, unproductivity, stagnation, which is cause of obesity and pile, stressed especially if use in long duration, short encitement, and unsatisfied and desires to consume more of it.

Chacha Jasari Amani

Antonio Matteo If you are so scared and wanna know if social media is a drug, here are the similarities between of the two:

For social media users, it increases dopamine signaling in the human brain just like drug do to brain. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that associates with pleasure.
You get a rush of dopamine after using these social media apps and sites, just like you would with an addictive drug like cocaine.
Your brain identifies whatever triggered the dopamine as rewarding and something you should repeat.
You may feel even more of this dopamine spike if you get positive feedback.
For example, if you post a video and get a lot of likes and comments, it can trigger even more dopamine than just using social apps or sites alone.
The positive feelings stemming from engaging with these apps and sites aren’t going to last forever.
The brain’s engagement with positive reinforcement often occurs in other addictions.
Social media can make one look unattentive and unserious to important matters the same as drug.
Excess use of social media can angered your teacher/boss especially when your attention is needed, which could possibly lead you lose your career just as hard drug.
Social media can make one appear agressive especially when there’s disappointment just like drug.
Social media and drug can make one talk to themselves.

Where Social media and drugs are dissimilar

Social media connects friends and families but drugs disconnect.
Social media can only stress the user, but drug can make one mental deficiency.
3 One can use social media till old age, but excess use of hard drugs can kill.
Social media can lead to night owl but drug can cause cancer, liver disease and other critical diseases.
Drug is almost irrevocable once health is damaged while social media is.

Now you know the differences!

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Antonio Matteo People thought social media is the new drug because it attract users to stick and consume more due to their seductive algorithm. See, don’t be cynical! People of the past had complained new inventions as you because they refused to understand how should inventions be use right. All inventions have their purpose positive and negative. Social media positivities to human is more than its negativities. People who chose distractions rather goal achievement will do so regardless of any nedium which they use.

Inresite

If social media networks are drugs, then everything on the surface of the earth could be classified as drug because at some point, humans have once addictive to some these things. Let’s take for example a sand. It’s rare to find children that has not played or eaten sand and even though they’re stopped, countless time they tried to go out and play with the sand, will that be classified a drug? No!

Will water be considered a drug because people feel enciited once they drank water after long being thirst? Not!

Are women a drug to men, because straight young men love women, and always have thought about women? No!

These are good examples of things/body that stimulate human brain yet not a drug.

Therefore, Social media are not drugs. But they may stimulus the same part of the brain as drug do, but are not scientifically classified as drugs.