im just here to remind you you're better off doing ANYTHING else you can think of instead of scrolling scrolling damages emotional regulation, attention span, memory, ability to do rewarding tasks in life, and unironically, your iq, it shrinks the gray matter in your brain it abuses the chemicals that make you happy by draining them, leaving energy for nothing else it makes you anxious by overwhelming you with so much content that you couldn't possibly process it all, no human could it tricks you into thinking you're self-soothing with the constant dopamine hits, you're not, you're sedating yourself to what's easy as the inner you knows the truth and that's exactly why it feels so shit you know you're harming yourself and creating excuses as to why it's actually okay or fine they are poisoning you. they invest billions to poison you more efficiently you have to get yourself out of this. there is no magic day everything changes IT HAS TO BE YOU or else you're gonna be old and dying and regretting your entire life social media is cool BUT ONLY IF YOU'RE MINDFUL AND SMART ABOUT IT !! there is no oh next time if you say that everyday and years pass . the past literally nothing more than a memory and the future is just a prediction you've made up in your head THERE IS ONLY RIGHT NOW You are alive and you can do literally anything you wanted to if you realized your emotions have never controlled the actions your body takes, it was always you enforcing this belief to yourself thousands of times that made it true you are powerful your brain is powerful if you'd stop hurting it all the time and expecting it not to break and then being even MORE frustrated if you had a kid you loved more than anything, a daughter or a son, would you give them a phone and tell them to scroll ? no because you KNOW how life ruining it is there's no excuse. go do something else if you want to live happily you need to love yourself enough to stand up for yourself