Social media hijacks dopamine to keep you scrolling mindlessly. The speaker watched London commuters go from chatting to staring at phones in silence, and argues that isolation feeds risky behaviors like chemsex.
One of the first ones is that of course they are dopamine release. It's a stimulant itself. The fact that we constantly scroll these reels, not even knowing why we're doing it, but it's the need of a stimulant for the brain. So we are literally abusing of this dopamine release on a daily basis without realizing. And a second harmful aspect of social media is the fact that they are disconnecting us from each other more than connecting us. We are way more disconnected today than we were 10, 15 years ago because of this, all the social media that We, they're literally stealing time from actually looking around and engaging with people. I remember 12 years ago when I arrived here in London, in the tube, people would just chat. They would talk to each other. If you look inside the tube, on a journey in a tube today, nobody's talking anymore. Everyone is on their phones. And therefore this is isolation or being less connected is, I think it's one of the issues also that links to chemsex.
