A midnight social media ban for 16- and 17-year-olds has been proposed in the UK. (BBC)
A social media ban is being considered only for children, but in reality, it should be considered for all adults as well. This is because it creates total addiction, disconnecting people from real life and imprisoning them inside their phones. There is no need to go into too much detail, but it fundamentally alters a person. It molds them into the kind of person others want them to be, preventing them from being themselves. The craving for more “likes” and clicks drives people to a frenzy and fosters an obsession with making money.
One of the most significant problems rising in recent years is people’s desire to get rich quick. This is because social media can thrust strangers—people we don’t know at all—into the spotlight as idols for us all.
Social media is not real life; it is a completely different existence. It is practically a planet of its own, inhabited solely by people who have become something other than their true selves. Since how one appears to others matters more than who one truly is, everyone begins living someone else’s life instead of their own.
The result: Social media has killed humanity. It has killed books, cinema, theater, and newspapers. Today, if you look at the audiences in cinemas or theaters, or at the people buying newspapers, you see mostly those aged 60 and older. When these people eventually pass away, there will be no one left but hollow young people who live only for the sake of others—millions of people with no connection to cinema, theater, newspapers, reading, or books.
We have written this before, and we will write it again: Social media should be banned for adults, too.