25 Social Media Facts That Will Make You Question Everything

You spend an average of two and a half hours on social media every single day. That's nearly 40 days a year on platforms engineered specifically to keep you there. But here's what they don't want you to know. Instagram intentionally withholds likes to make you check more often. TikTok's algorithm can predict your deepest insecurities within 100 videos. And it gets darker from there. These are 25 Social Media Facts That Will Make You Question Everything. Grab your copy of What The Facts now, available on Amazon! Click the link to explore over 500 fun and fascinating facts! 👉👉https://www.amazon.com/WHAT-FACTS-ARE-TALKING-ABOUT-ebook/dp/B0DFNR2KHT/ Please support my channel and get access to perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWqJpFqlX59OML324QIByZA/join 🔔 Subscribe for more tips just like this: https://bit.ly/3Ewz99H 🚀 Watch our latest List25 Videos: https://www.youtube.com/c/list25/videos 📨 Have a list idea? Submit it here: https://bit.ly/3Mu3gk1 Music: Socialite Mugshot - Verified Picasso 0:00 - Intro 0:20 - The "Like" Button Was Designed By A Gambling Expert 0:59 - Social Media Companies Have Internal Research They Hide 1:55 - Your Feed Is Designed To Make You Angry 2:46 - TikTok Can Profile You Faster Than Any Platform In History 3:41 - Instagram Hides Likes To Make You Check More Often 4:40 - The "Slop" Crisis: 62% of Influencers Don't Fact-Check 5:36 - Influencers Are Often Paid To Hide The Fact They're Paid 6:30 - Snapchat Streaks Are Designed To Create Artificial Obligation 7:32 - YouTube Autoplay Is The Most Dangerous Feature On The Internet 8:19 - Facebook Groups Became Hotbeds For Extremism By Design 9:27 - Twitter/X Deliberately Amplifies Divisive Politicians 10:09 - The Average Person Checks Their Phone 96 Times Per Day 10:53 - Instagram's Beauty Filters Changed A Generation's Self-Image 11:56 - Your Data Is Sold To Advertisers You've Never Heard Of 13:00 - Comparison Culture Has Quantified Your Self-Worth 14:02 - Social Media May Be Causing A Youth Mental Health Crisis 15:02 - There Is No Real Privacy On Social Media 15:47 - The Platforms Employ Thousands Of Traumatized Moderators 16:56 - The "Dead Internet" Theory: Bots Outnumbering Humans 17:54 - Social Media Has Changed Your Brain's Reward System 18:48 - Former Executives Warn Their Own Children Away 19:44 - The Attention Economy Is A Zero-Sum War For Your Mind 20:34 - Your Memories Are Being Warped By How You Document Them 21:33 - Doomscrolling: The Compulsion to Consume Bad News 22:44 - You Might Already Be Addicted And Not Know It 🍿 WATCH OUR OTHER VIDEOS: ►25 Things People Did BEFORE CELL PHONES You Won't Believe: https://youtu.be/TfIkwm-EPeg?si=gt4ZPdKXrG55HXUX ►25 Facts That Will Make You Question Everything You Know: https://youtu.be/NlZ4LtmB2AQ?si=F1HcXRZNPjb97FJq List25 Discord: https://discord.gg/ZcKZRspW7f Facebook: http://facebook.com/list25 Instagram: http://instagram.com/list25 Twitter/X: http://twitter.com/list25 Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/list25 Mike Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michaelbestrin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DizMeLife Twitter: https://twitter.com/DizMeLife Twitter: https://twitter.com/MichaelBEstrin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mikeestrin/ Cameo: https://www.cameo.com/michaelbestrin Mike's Other Channel: https://www.youtube.com/dizmelife See more lists on our website: http://list25.com Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research