connection vs consumption, which side are you on?

hey guys it's isaiah, this is my space hey account, I made it way back in 2022 when I was 15, I never thought the day would come when I would actually use this as my main social media, but in 2025, im definitely gonna use this as my main social media. TikTok and instagram is not good for our mental healths, it's frying our brains and overstimulating us as a generation and we don't even realize it and that's not good at all. with being on a platform like spacehey, its no algorithm period. you actually get to be your self on this, you can't rot your brain away because there's no endless scrolling, and most importantly to me, its authentic and vibey! you control what you see, and being not anchored into being glued to your screen. (BARZZZZ) modern day social media is designed to keep you consumed with endless content and brain rot you to keep your attention on their platform so the advertisers get paid, but thats lowering our attention spans!!! thats why depression and anxiety rates is high for our generation, when we are so use to constantly getting instant gratification and instant dopamine hitz, it creates a false sense of reality and also, you miss out on real connections, thats why people are scared to speak and interact because social media is killing actual social skills and it doesn't help when you see people doing better than you on social media and then you get to comparing yourself and you feel like your behind. for example, Sally is 18 and Molly is 18, Molly doesn't have a job yet but Sally has a job and live on her own, Molly don't know Sally, but they have the same mutual friends, so then the algorithm recommended Sally on Molly's feed. So Molly checks out Sallys page because they have the same mutual and after leaving Sallys page, Molly is feeling disappointed and sad about herself because she fell like she's not on Sallys Level and their the same age, because what Molly did was compared herself to Sally, but everyones path in life is different, so you can only to focus on your path and not others, when your focused on others, you don't take time to focus on yourself, that's why sometimes you have things that you wanna do, but you never get to it, because your not worried you, your worried about others around you. when you stop consuming, you start creating and this ties back into what I said about social media creating a false sense of reality because social media would make you think you have options with the endless amount of people on the app, but with that false sense of thinking and reality, you miss out on true valuable connections (BARZZZ). thats why we are in a loneliness epidemic, the original point of social media was to be able to socially connect digitally, not consuming hours of content from random people or AI (;-;) that you would probably never speak to or think about on your regular day to day. connections BEATZ consumption every time!! what happened to the original plot you may ask? I got the answer 4 u, the companies saw how they can turn our attention into a money grab cash cow situation and they're milking it BAD! WHY DO YOU THINK SOCIAL MEDIA CEOS DONT ALLOW THEY KIDS TO USE THE APP OR LIMIT THEIR TIME ON THE APP, THEY KNOW WHAT THEYRE DOING!!!! think about it, if you feel like your depressed or going through it mentally, take a break from your phone, deactivate your instagram and tiktok, stand on business and take a short break, like for a week to for a month, don't go too big, this takes baby steps to break this addiction, and once you take your break from social media, you get to experience the benefits of living more in the moment and not for the moment, when you experience life without being glued to your phone by taking a break from social media, you get a different perspective and you snap back into the real world and experience there's more to life outside of the digital world. why do you think gen z especially is so nostalgic, because we use to be so carefree before we got phones and social media dominated, like I remember going to the park, going over to friends houses, actually going outside, vibing and communicating without phones, just vibes, our nostalgia isn't fake, its a grief for the art of simplicity that we once had. thats why lowkey I wish I was a teen in the 2000s cuz everything was more social and authentic, however, its up to you and how you go about it. do you want to control how you live, or do you want your phone to be the one to dictate how you live, the ball is in your court, but what goal will you aim for?

isaiah

10/29/25

2:49am