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The Danger of Too Much Social Media

It began with scrolling.
Harmless. Mindless.
A little dopamine.
A few likes.
A few… hundred thousand likes.

Then the algorithms began to learn.
Not what you liked – but why you scrolled.

You weren’t scrolling anymore.
You were being scrolled.

The first documented case of full digital absorption occurred in 2031.

A man named Devin fell into a loop of watching increasingly abstract content:

A rabbit making smoothies.

A man playing chess against his own reflection.

A talking duck giving breakup advice in Morse code.

By video 178,441, he had forgotten how to blink.

Symptoms spread:

People began seeing comment sections in real life.

Some could only communicate through emojis.

Others waited for real-time filters before entering a room.

One woman stopped forming original thoughts.
She waited for trending hashtags to tell her how to feel.
She cried for six hours straight after #ExistentialMuffin became viral.

Governments tried intervention.

A new protocol called “ScrollLock” was issued.
But it backfired.
People just… scrolled the warning away.

Then came the mutation:

An influencer began trending before they even existed.

They were born into virality.
The baby had 92 million followers by 3 days old.
At 2 weeks, it sued its parents for “non-curated content exposure.”

And the final stage?

A group of people stopped interacting with reality altogether.
They stood in perfect poses, all day.
Waiting.

Waiting for the next notification to tell them what to be.

One man – known only as “The Unfollowed” – wandered into the desert without his phone.
He claimed he saw God.
Others claim he saw himself.
But since it wasn’t streamed, no one believed it ever happened.