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Social Media is a catalyst

I am pretty sure, that as an informed member of the internet, you must have very bad connotations attached to the word "Social Media". It is one of the new "evils" that you must fight back against, and protect the young generation from. I think it is time to part the curtains and look at this evil clearly. How exactly does it function, and is it really an evil entity, or have we been making up opinions about it without proper analysis?

 The Problem 
Let's first try to articulate the details of this problem. Most people would agree that the following points make Social Media, a bane :
  1. Attention Addiction: The tendency to value other people's attention very highly, and to have an affinity to go to any limits, to just get that next "Like". 
  2. Comparison Conundrum: The tendency to observe all the positive aspects in other people's lives and then to start comparing their "results" to our life's "results", without realizing that for "results" to match, "efforts" also need to match at some level
  3. Validation Vexation: The tendency to always seek external validation about whatever it is that you do/have or are planning to do/have.
The counter
Upon careful observation, you will clearly see that "Socal Media", is not the root cause of any of the above points. Instead, it can only act as a catalyst, to amplify the impact of whatever problematic habits that a person tends to exhibit. A person who has these tendencies would have exhibited the same behaviors, even without the existence of "Social Media", although without the catalyst it won't be as apparent to their peers.

Conclusion 
Since "Social Media", is only a catalyzing platform, we have an opportunity, to focus on the core behavior and ideas that are running through our minds. If the platform can catalyze negative behaviors, it can sure as heck, work for positive ideas and behaviors as well.  Looking inside your own mind, you will realize that your brain is a Supercomputer that is running all these simulations and making you believe that the problems are external, when in fact you are literally holding the control inside your mind.

Your brain is a supercharged perspective based simulator, literally creating all of your life. Please take control of this heavy machinery, explore it and use it to its full potential. The bigger question then becomes, "What do you want to use your mind for ?", but that is a question that you can only answer for yourself.

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