Stop Wasting Your Life on Social Media Until You Learn This One Crucial Truth

Gholamreza Zare
4 min readAug 10, 2024

We live in a world where social media is the air we breathe, the water we swim in, and the sun we bask under. It’s woven into the fabric of our daily lives, from the moment we wake up to the minute we go to bed, with our thumbs endlessly scrolling through feeds, liking, sharing, and commenting on posts that range from the mundane to the extraordinary.

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Social media promises connection, entertainment, and a sense of belonging, but beneath its glossy surface lies a truth that many of us overlook — a truth that, once understood, can change the way you engage with these platforms forever. Before you spend another hour, another minute, another second of your one-time life on social media, you need to find out this:

It’s not designed to serve you — it’s designed to serve itself.

Let’s take a step back and look at the nature of social media platforms. These platforms are not neutral spaces; they’re meticulously engineered ecosystems, designed to capture and hold your attention for as long as possible. Every like, every notification, every piece of content is part of a complex system that’s optimized not for your well-being, but for the platform’s bottom line. The more time you spend on the platform, the more ads you see, the more

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Gholamreza Zare

Tech enthusiast & writer on a journey of self-improvement and software engineering. Reach me at ghrzarea@gmail.com. Explore more: https://amazon.com/author/zare