Quit Feeding the Algorithm

It rots your brain.

It's designed to be addictive.

It's an attention extraction mechanism, converting your time into corporate profit.

Social media extracts your attention, your patience, and plants anger in its place. Video platforms industrialize the process.

blink.

Thirty-three minutes have passed.

Sometimes, you'll think, "Wow, I learned something new today!" But if we could really learn in 90-second increments, K-12 wouldn't be mandatory.

A thirty-two-second clip about geopolitics is not a replacement for reading Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger.

A ninety-six-second video about quantum vibrations isn't a substitute for a physics course.

A two-hundred-and-twenty-five-second recording delivered by a confident-sounding person in a suit is not a substitute for actual credibility and expertise.

It's designed to make you feel you're getting something; you're not, you're being tricked, to sell you ads. You may feel informed and entertained, but it’s fleeting—it lacks cognitive investment (The illusion of knowledge is a profitable business model).

You're surrendering one of the most precious things you actually own: your attention and time.

When you're on social media, you are letting yourself be exploited by companies looking to profit from your psychological vulnerabilities.

You have one life. Is scrolling on social media making it better? Is that the time you're going to cherish on your deathbed?

Click Uninstall. Go for a walk.

Enjoy all that extra time with yourself.

Try it for two weeks– you'll see it adds little to your life.

Don’t let technology steal your agency.