“In a new world is brain sorry”
“I scrolls the the flow with your thumb. Stop, scroll back. See life pass by on the screen and will myself to barely register what I see. Or do I do it? I don’t know anymore. My bff does with anything on the other side of the phone. Facetime and Instagram gives us the opportunity to feel that we are almost living side-by-side, although the entire Atlantic ocean between us. And when I start to scroll the same unchanged flow for the third time, I say:”
“– Hello, I do not even remember which picture you posted on Instagram later.”
“I hear her stop.”
“– Same here. What la you out? Honestly, I do not even remember what I liked and not. I can get so tired of the whole world.”
“I nod acquiescence, but she sees it not as I say:”
“– Then. We are going to die ”liked” by many, but hardly loved by ourselves.”
“I hear her laugh. We both have in one way or another, build our brands and life on Instagram for the past seven years.”
“There has been much talk about influencers and Instagram in the latest time. To be clueless in the face of things as climate change and the impact. But I want to talk about it. If we all are ignorant to what is new before the first impact started to show in contrast to that which is good. If that influencers generally indicates a reality that is often not possible and many of us follow in the same footsteps. Polishes and posting. Take a hundred versions of a picture that we know will never reach more than an iCloud-cloud. But we know what it’s doing with the brain?”
“I saw a video on Youtube that talked about how the brain is affected by constant comparison. That women developed ångestdiagnoser and post-traumatic stress due to the constant exposure. The brain has in the digitised world, damaged by to learn what is ”beautiful” or ”ugly”, what is ”liked” or not.”
“What does it mean for a generation who will live the majority of their lives on the internet?”
“the Swedish researcher Sissela Nutley lifted a warning finger during last year and said that social media makes the brain ”sorry”. And when I ask some teenage girls how they look on social media, they say that they blocked large influencerkonton. They feel that it is not for real but still can not defend themselves. They get anxious when it feels like the worst. But is it so strange, anyway? The brain has learned to be sorry in a new world in which we have been unaware of until the consequences came.”
“My bff continues to rattle. It is a Sunday, in a world where life goes on all the time. Outside windows and doors, behind passwords and screens. In the flows determined by the company’s algorithms, but which we believe is a testament to our value. She tells us about a study that showed that people who shut down social media increased both their quality of life and happiness by two percentage points after only a week and says:”
” I think the fan disable my account. See what happens.”
“I’m looking for anyway after her the next morning. She is not. Or does she do?”
“It’s a Monday in a new world, but she exists only in the old.”
“And I wonder who we can become when we no longer strive to be liked by others than ourselves.”
