Claiming our lives back from social media addiction

Re:Claiming our lives back from social media addiction by erasemus on Monday December 11, 2017 @01:49PM (#15899263)

My predictably unpopular theory is that highly social people are really afraid of other people. Perhaps not without reason if one regards other humans as potential predators. So they designate a group of people friends and use it as protection against all the other people.

Yet they remain afraid, and this fear is what makes social interactions addictive (like gambling; the great the fear the greater the high on the occasions when you don't lose).

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Re:Claiming our lives back from social media addiction by wutbrodo on Monday December 11, 2017 @03:15PM (#15900026)

You may be using a very nonstandard of "highly social", but doesn't it usually also imply that you get along well with new people?

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Re:Claiming our lives back from social media addiction by erasemus on Monday December 11, 2017 @04:26PM (#15900605)

Yes they get along with new people and have a large number of shallow relationships. Whereas I think normies and aspies tend to have deeper relationships with only a few people. Btw, they're not aware of their motives -- they don't feel afraid (though I suppose they may have felt so when the whole process began, at school).

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Re:Claiming our lives back from social media addiction by magic_beans on Monday December 11, 2017 @02:24PM (#15899529)

That's ridiculous.

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Re:Claiming our lives back from social media addiction by erasemus on Monday December 11, 2017 @03:27PM (#15900132)

Agreed.

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