There's a study that found out how these same receptors for pain, actual physical pain, are getting activated in people's brains when they are criticized, critiqued and hurt online. And the fact that there is like a physiological symptom for something that is happening on an app that should be troublesome in terms of how much time and energy we actually give to these places. I think what social media has done is it has lowered the threshold for who is and isn't a public figure
Aayan B
@aayanisms · 4:57
If they retweet something somebody said good about them, then they say oh look, you're only highlighting those who suck up to you. If they respond to the trolls then people say oh, to get your attention I just need to troll, is that it? So those kind of things are there. Patriarchy conditioning, social upbringing, all of these play a part in the social psyche
And there's plenty of studies and information about mob mentality and how unhelpful and how destructive these groups can be. But then you look at it from the perspective of even neurotransmitters. And something I've learned this last year that I didn't realize is that dopamine can come from not only things that give us pleasure, but things like one upsmanship, right? Or getting one over on somebody or conquering them, quote unquote, or dominating them in conversation. And social media is full of that, right?
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
We don't have a full, let's say, internalized understanding of some of these things and how they impact us. And so we haven't adjusted or adapted our thinking of how we behave then, and to some extent this will happen. It's just going to take a long time. We definitely have new understandings of psychology and sociology and so on in recent last century alone, and that has changed things to some extent of how we interact and so on
Binati Sheth
@Binati_Sheth · 3:17
I have read, heard, or seen that's mostly what I do on Twitter and the consequences, we are not rewarded for this. I had no clue you are on Twitter, so I just found you and I saw your tweets. And exactly the kind of traction you see for something like what you are coming up with. What is the kind of traction that something snippy and snide and condescending. On a fundamental level, it's disheartening. On a social level, it is jarring
Binati Sheth
@Binati_Sheth · 4:31
So this this thing, this seekness of behavior and this speed with which I mean, I saw people bringing up y two K fashion and I'm like, we used to do this in the used to see it all the time. It's not new. Why is this trend, you know, being seen as the epidem epitome of fashion? Ask any person who was in the they cringe at that looks, right? But apparently so there's positives of it, of course
Right when that term first came out, girl boss, I thought it was so strange. And then the way it turned into sort of this capitalist thing instead of really being about female empowerment. And then it was like I remember reading an article at some point I can't remember because this was some time ago now, and I didn't keep it in my brain for whatever reason, but something about there was gatekeeping going on