YouTube Shorts Are Parasites To Your Mind
Stop chasing cheap dopamine, Shorts are frying your nervous system and wasting your life.
What’s with the TikTok-ification of the internet these days? More and more we see short form content being pushed out on social media.
Imagine what it’s doing to our already fractured and truncated attention spans. It’s making it harder and harder to focus on more meaningful activities in life.
It’s also a lot of information in a short space of time. This is hectic to our nervous system. Most of us are already overstimulated, and over-marketed to.
I’m not a social media girlie at all. For the most part, I can’t stand it. The only social-media-like platform I check out sometimes is YouTube. And I’ve even cut back on that daily poison.
But these shorts! Argh, they seriously make me want to scream.
There is so much noise on them. And although some shorts offer value, most of them are brain-rot material for the mind. Shorts are mostly about the dopamine hit of consuming quick content.
It’s mostly mindless entertainment, and I want nothing to do with it. I’ve found clever ways of avoiding the nuisances, and thank goodness for that.
What has the internet turned into? Are we so disconnected from ourselves and our environment, we’d rather waste our lives away on mostly silly content?
Shorts are a hindrance to us navigating the internet consciously, and with our attention roughly intact. It’s better to stay the heck away from them. Instead choosing to watch longfrom content that encourage us to hold a line of thought lasting more than 20 seconds.
There is a quiet joy to thinking deeper, and having the mental space to process concepts gently, and without rush.
There is more to life than quick scrolling through silly pranks, and attention-grabbing empty content, meaning does not lie in YouTube shorts.
Let’s not allow these social media apps, that aren’t social, and are questionable “media” to overtake our attention. They introduce mental junk food into our minds, leading to muddy and unclear thoughts, over-comparison, and information overload.
Humans aren’t designed to consume snippets of moving visual data like this. It’s super stimulating to our nervous system, and has so many negative mental and physical health consequences. Let’s rise up and start curating our digital experience. It’s a case of use it wisely, or let your mind be used by it.
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