THE DARK SIDE OF INSTAGRAM: Losing Your Identity and Mental Health
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This video is a re-upload of a video I posted 3 years back. Just had a chance to revisit this while I was sorting through videos on my PC. I think it is still relevant, especially given the impact of reels.
In this video about the dark side of Instagram, I will explain the things that I have observed and heard from others regarding Instagram and how it shapes us and our minds.
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0:00 THE DARK SIDE OF INSTAGRAM: Losing Your Identity and Mental Health: Disclaimer and Intro
1:00 The Instagram Algorithm
2:25 You Can't Beat the Algorithm
3:53 The Business Model of Instagram
4:56 The Lies You're Being Fed
6:32 The Slow Intrusion of Negativity and Depression (Losing Your Identity)
Instagram has evolved as one of the highly successful social media of our times. Facebook knew the potential of Instagram when they bought it back in 2012, and it seems like they had a clear picture of what to do with Instagram. But what worries me is that Instagram has the potential to become one of the most dangerous social media when mental health is considered. If we don’t stop obsessing over our feed and live our lives entangled on Instagram; there is a high possibility that we might discover ourselves as depressed.
Understanding the algorithm is no rocket science; it is quite understandable and straightforward. Unless we are driving traffic to our feed from external sources; spending precious time on Instagram is the only way to grow in numbers. The more we use Instagram tools like stories, IGTV and so on and the more we interact with others and their posts; the higher the chances of others interacting with us and interacting with our content.
The designers of the algorithm require each one of us to interact more and more and spend a substantial amount of time on their platform. This rewards us with more engagement on our posts in the forms of likes, follows and comments. The numbers start to pop on our feed, those red pop-ups flashes more frequently, and we feel victorious.
With the immense amount of time, we spent on the platform, our mind slowly learn to seek validation for all the things that we post on our feed. We forget about our objective, whatever it might be. All we seek now are the likes, follows and comments.
We get into a habit of comparing content that someone else posts, which is similar to ours. If we have posted something better than the other person, but he gets all the attention; we feel ashamed and start thinking on negative lines. We fail to realise that the comments are shallow; that everyone is keenly involved in a rat race to accumulate more likes and comments.
When we understand that our efforts to raise the numbers for in vain, we feel sad and depressed, a feeling of self-hatred and self-doubt looms over us. We develop a myopic view of what we post and we start to question ourselves on the quality of our posts. This will not help us in creating better content; we tend to follow the stats, the numbers… The numbers tell us that a particular post of ours performed better than something that we enjoyed creating and posting. We give up on what makes us happy on focus on creating what bestows us with validation in the form of high numbers and we lose our identity in this process.
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