Social media is training your brain for distraction.

Social media use is training your brain to be distracted. But there's a way to fix it.

Your brain is like puppy. How do you train a puppy? You get it to sit and then you give it a treat. You get it to do the behaviour, and then you reward the behaviour.

You brain is exactly the same, and social media platforms know this.

They get you to come onto their platform and scroll, then they reward your brain with some dopamine inducing videos or likes on your posts.

But just like a puppy, if you train your brain on bad habits, that's what it's going to learn.

Using social media use is training us to crave distraction, we want a new video if it doesn't entertain us within milliseconds. We want the brightest, boldest, most outrageous content and are so uncomfortable being bored.

So what can you do about it? Minimise the reward. A dog will eventually stop doing the behaviour if they get no reward for it. Open social media in the worst browser you can think of so it's slow and annoying to use, turn on grey scale on your phone so the colours are less appealing and practice doing one thing at a time - put your phone away for 5 minutes while you do a task.

Is your brain trained for distraction?

Healthy tech habits workshops are the best way to educate your staff, students and parents about the social media ban and helping children to build healthier relationships with their devices. Book in for a presentation for your school, organisation or local government.