A short YouTube conversation (Gary Brecka and another speaker) examining how social media creates a felt-but-shallow sense of connection and describing personal experiments to deepen real-world relationships. The speakers report removing a TV, taking longer evening walks, and cooking slower, healthier meals; they attribute renewed closeness and 'falling in love' feelings to increased oxytocin from these activities.
Social media is not necessarily the enemy itself. It's that social media makes us feel connected, and we're actually not connected.
Yeah, we're moderately satisfying an incredibly important ancient desire on social media. And because it kind of ticks the box, we're just not really chasing deep, deep human connection as much. My partner and I do different experiments based on these brain chemicals. We tried to get rid of our tv. We started, obviously, walking for longer in the evenings, trying to entertain us, cooking much slower, healthier, more nutritious meals, and you fall in love with each other and it's massive magic. And that moment is deep oxytocin.
