“He feels like losing, although he hasn’t even got out of bed yet”
How to protect yourself from scam and phishing? How to find yourself in the world of AI and algorithms? How to avoid hate, patoinfluuncercers and phonoholism? How not to get to Fake News and Deepfake? – About all this in the book “Homo digitalis. How does the Internet devour our life?” writes Wojtek Kardyś, a social media expert.
We publish a fragment of the chapter: FOMO – Maketing Pepper Gas:
Wojtek wakes up at 7.30 am. He turns off the hated alarm clock on the phone and thoughts: “Aaa, when I hold it, I will check Instagram.” He sees that someone was in Barcelona at the Lewandowski match (Wojtek never saw him live), someone else ran a marathon (Wojtek can’t even run), his friend got a new job (Wojtek doesn’t like her), and his sister is very happy with a new boyfriend (Wojtek doesn’t have a girl, she only has objects of sighs).
Thus, Wojtek, who did not even get out of bed, feels like losing, feels like a person who has not achieved anything in his life, has the feeling that something bypasses him, that he is dead enough and that he must (whatever “it” is) to make up for it immediately.
Internet addiction has very serious emotional effects. One of them is the so -called Fomo, from English Fear of Missing Out. It can be defined as a fear of the fact that if we are disconnected from the network, something important we will miss: a message that could bring us something good, we will lose contact with someone important. This, in turn, causes anxiety, anxiety, irritability. However, it is difficult to keep up in all this gallop of notifications, likes, changing statuses, comments, hundreds of new photos, videos. From minute to minute, the belief is growing in us that a fascinating life is going on somewhere on the web, and we fell out of circulation. Everyone around them has a great time, spend time together, only we don’t know what to do with each other.
The need to track friends’ relationships, responding to every comment, the sound of the incoming notification is particularly strong in teenagers. It is their sociable to be or not to be, the acceptance of the group depends on it. There is even physical compulsion to take the phone with you everywhere, even to the toilet. Because what if someone calls or writes? These are symptoms that indicate addiction, as well as reflex pages reflexive, continuous checking of mail, likes and updates.
