I Was Wrong About TikTok
Overstimulation is something that many people my age are experiencing. Living in the modern era with so much stimulus all around us, and the biggest one in our pockets, its difficult to not be overstimulated these days. There were definitely times where I would be scrolling through Instagram, then would go on Tiktok, then twitter, and while I’m at it why not go to reddit, and check out this Youtube video, all while I’m already watching TV and with other people who are unfortunately doing the same thing I am. Imagine being a room with your “friends” and all of you are on TikTok not even having a conversation, are you really even friends then?
When I was doing this binge stimulation, I felt that I was never satisfied. Life wasn’t has beautiful as it is today. Everything I did had this empty feeling towards it, where I always felt something was missing. The main reason for this is because we are addicted to dopamine, and when we consume these high dopamine apps our baseline increases and thus normal life is no longer satisfying. Dopamine is not the happy chemical, its the motivation, the pursuit, the desire chemical. Dopamine is highest when we are pursuing a goal, an idea, or literally grocery shopping. We are in the store and we think we need Milk, dopamine starts firing and there we go to grab our Milk. Dopamine is the highest after the start of the action and before the goal. The idea of something gives us way more Dopamine then the actual item itself, because of dopamine getting us hyped so we actually take some action. So that is why when we are on these apps hella, life just sucks because you don’t want to do anything but go on these apps, because only these apps will give you that much dopamine. That is why people are glued and literally ADDICTED to these Social Media apps.
TikTok is definitely the worst. I was wrong about TikTok and I think you need to delete that shit ASAP. Tiktok is not only making your life worst by setting your dopamine baseline super high, but also making your attention span shorter than a goldfish. What prolonged TikTok abuse looks like, speaking on what it did to me, was that I couldn’t even pay attention to what was in front of me. My mind would keep on drifting at all times. This occurs because of TikTok’s infinity pool of endless scrolling. Every time you are not satisfied you just scroll to the next video, and the next video, and the next video. However in real life you can’t scroll to the next video or the next exciting moment, you are stuck where you are. TikTok also operates like a slot machine, because when you open the app you never know what your going to get. You can see the most life-changing video and also a video in which you will never get your time back. Thus we addicted to the dopamine feeling and think we’re going to see some crazy stuff that we have seen in the past. Thus the endless scrolling begins and its been 5 hours where you been just staring at a Magic Rock. Thus we start getting frustrated with our situation and then feel irritated and hopeless as you don’t want to do anything because TikTok is taking all of your dopamine. Also having a low-attention span is not a flex, if you don’t have any mental diagnose then its not a flex. You shouldn’t be happy that you have an attention span of a goldfish. If you are proud of your low-attention span then I literally laughing at you, your life is a joke LMAO. Its only been a week since I permanently quit and life is already so much better. No more vlogs, TikTok’s monetization options are garbage so its not even worth. Will be moving on Youtube, look out for that 🙂 Subscribe if you would like, it would make me hella happy. Here is a short video of what is in my bag LOL
I permanently deleted my Instagram on July 28th, 2022. I didn’t just delete the app, like the account is gone. dharmobear is gone, and I really don’t give a shit. I started using Insta ever since it came out, back in 2013 when I was in the 6th grade. This means it has been ~10 years. The explorer page was my bane, I found myself constantly scrolling and scrolling and scrolling. Also instagram just became ads and a place for the people I knew to start their modeling career. Shoutout if your making hella bank modeling on Insta I respect that get your bread up, but I will never be an instagram model lets be honest LMAO. Also my closest friends didn’t even post on Insta, I never used insta to actually make friends or talk to people. If your my friend we already have each other’s numbers, so we don’t need Instagram. In the future if an Instagram is needed for business reasons then it will be made, but until then, I will be off Instagram. Deleting this shit has been life changing too, when people ask for me for my IG I just say I don’t have one and offer my number instead, which is what I wanted anyways.
I stopped using Snapchat April 11, 2022. Sorry to all those that sent me snaps I will most likely never open it, until I download snapchat to then permanently delete my account. I didn’t delete snapchat because I was addicted or it was overstimulating because it definitely wasn’t. There is a deeper reason for why I deleted snapchat.
Reading is Goated. I started taking reading seriously in March of 2020, and life hasn’t been the same since. A guide on how to start reading and transition off social media is in the works, look out for that 🙂
Thank you for reading, let’s grow together 🙂