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many times has your perception of a certain group of people changed
because of something you read about or watched online or on social media?
How many times has your decisions and the lifestyle choices you make
changed because you “saw something on Facebook that says you shouldn’t
be doing it”?
Social media is like an addictive drug that keeps you coming back for more,
and what makes it such a dangerous manipulative force to the reckoned
with is the fact that it beginning to rewire the way our brains are starting to
think. Scientists have revealed that our brains are now being triggered in a
way that they never have been before in the history of humanity, with MRI
scans proving that social media has begun triggering the release of
dopamine - the very chemical that makes us feel good - in our minds.
When this form of manipulation starts to feel good is when we know it’s got
a stronger hold on us than we would like to admit.
