Social Media is the cigarettes and alcohol of the 21st Century. amirite?

I scroll and smoke. Double damage

by Ghagenes 1 week ago

Sup dawg. Heard you liked cancer. So we put smoking inside social media so that you can get cancer while you get cancer

by beattyaracely 1 week ago

Social media is far worse than cigarettes and alcohol!

by Anonymous 1 week ago

That's why it's far worse and not just worse, it because it's worse despite the mortality!

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I mean, is it REALLY worse than being dead?

by Careful_Grass 1 week ago

Yes social media impact and let you impact much more people, cigarettes and alcohol usually are killing just you.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Well I mean you can still live until 90 or older even if you've been drinking and smoking for a long time if you're lucky. Even if you died younger at least you enjoyed your time lol. With social media it makes you feel dead inside just scrolling for the dopamine hit.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

That's exactly my point

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Yeah me neither, I was just agreeing 😁

by Anonymous 1 week ago

So does alcohol and cigarettes when the person dies and leave the families behind. You can't convince me being bullied online is equal to seeing a family member drink themselves to death lol

by Careful_Grass 1 week ago

I would like to add to this point. Loneliness and being alone is seen by the medical community as worse for your health then cigarettes or alcohol. While not all people with social media access become alone, or feel lonely. We know it does increase the likelihood of this happening.

by After-Principle 1 week ago

I think we will agree to disagree on this one.

by Careful_Grass 1 week ago

Mother always told me you can debate with anyone but you'll never win against idiots

by Careful_Grass 1 week ago

Uh, no.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Ya at least those make you feel good at some point.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Maybe on a national level, but I'd strongly disagree on a personal level. My mom is an alcoholic that drank through my entire childhood and most of my young adult years. She's been on the wagon almost 20 years now, but I still get flashbacks to those days. She's an entirely different, much better person now than she was then.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

You've never had a family member addicted to alcohol

by Cmayer 1 week ago

Who knows

by Anonymous 1 week ago

No lol cigarettes and alcohol never threatened the very structure of society.. well at least other than prohibition Social media is a mind control WMD

by Anonymous 1 week ago

What about social media while smoking and drinking?

by Intelligent-Cash-222 1 week ago

true, last year my friend died from lung cancer caused by his facebook addiction.

by Zackaryhermisto 1 week ago

You can be actively addicted to something and still hate it. Most addicts are desperate to get rid of their addiction, same with social media. Doesn't mean it's easy.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Cigarette addiction is just as much psychological as it is physiological. Any smoker will tell you that. You get over the "physical" withdrawals within two or three days, the psychological withdrawals lasts for months. It's all about hitting those reward centers in your brain. Playing basketball isn't a good comparison but if you want to go that route, take something like working out. People definitely get addicted to working out. Porn, social media, whatever. You don't have to be physically dependent on something to be addicted to it.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I'm a smoker myself, I'm from Turkey, everyone is a smoker over here. Nicotine is a highly addictive chemical, we are not addicted to having some stick in our mouths, we are addicted to the chemicals inside the cigarette, mainly nicotine. You are not addicted to social media. You just use it because it's a quick and mildly entertaining way to pass the time. That's different than an addiction.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

You seem unwilling to accept the fact that psychological addiction is real so there's no need to further this conversation. Have a good day.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I'm not going to accept something just because you say it's real. Tell me, how does social media addiction work exactly? How do you determine a person is addicted to social media? What goes through their brains when a social media addict is kept from accessing social media?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Not at all. I disagree with the extension you've made entirely.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Of course you can. This is the every single definition of social media you will find out there though.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

It is in the ways that matter — ie it's full of toxic negativity that will absolutely eat at your psyche if you let it.

by Extension_Benefit 1 week ago

Literal brain rot

by candidawintheis 1 week ago

Still baffles my mind how ppl at any time didnt think smoke inhalation was bad.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Tanning leather makes it tougher, why wouldn't tanning your lungs help make them stronger? (/s, but I could see people saying that in the past)

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I 100% agree with this.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I'm pretty sure cigarettes and alcohol are still the cigarettes and alcohol of the 21st century

by DrawIndependent2150 1 week ago

Nah it's worse than that. Cigarettes and alcohol poison the body, social media poisons the fabric of society.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I don't think this is the unpopular opinion you might think it is. I think the shine is worn off and more and more ppl are finding it abhorrent. Personally as a father I'm already on board with educating my kids about how to use it effectively and won't be giving them access until highschool .

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I smoked for roughly 15 years. My addiction to the "scroll" is just as strong, if not stronger than the urge to smoke a cigarette was. It's crazy.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

You're correct, but also this is not an unpopular opinion.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

"Steve Jobs once said that smartphones will be like treadmills for our brain. But I am now starting to think that they are more like junk food. " -Alok Kanojia

by Automatic-Ranger 1 week ago

I recon cigarettes and alcohol are the cigarettes and alcohol of the 21st century

by raleighgraham 1 week ago

Cigarettes and alcohol are still cigarettes and alcohol of the 21st century.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Alcohol is still pretty normal. We're in the early stages of de-normalizing binge drinking for younger people and casual, light, but frequent drinking for everyone.. Smoking is dying off. For at least 10 years I've 'noticed' people smoking.. Before that it was just what some (a lot) of people did.

by Anonymous 1 week ago