Social Media are Manipulating your Free Will
We should be in control of our own decisions—nobody else.
When the technology era began, society experienced important changes. Tools like social media platforms, i.e., Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Google, … managed to gather people worldwide. They created promising and unprecedented opportunities. We reconnected with old friends from kindergarten. Others reunited lost family members or found organs donors for their loved ones. These revolutionary tools enabled many wonderful and meaningful societal things. No one would have ever imagined social media are manipulating your free will.
Behavior of Addiction
The number of smartphone users keeps increasing and will surpass 3 billion by the end of 2020. Such devices are omnipresent in our lives — it’s a fact. After waking up, the first thing you do is looking at your smartphone for news feed and missing social media apps notifications.
Is it becoming a “normal” behavior? Is it still possible to have a technology-free wake-up routine? Such action reminds me of what heavy smokers do after waking up — They light a cigarette. It reminds me also of what alcohol heavy drinkers do after waking up — They drink an alcoholic beverage. In other words, looking at the news feeds recommended by your…
