Social Media Addicts Anonymous | Real Stories Original 

That adult man was watery eyes for leaving Instagram for a week ...what is wrong??

Every girl thinks their a model on instagram when they use the dog filter

First world problems.

Proof - social media makes you wear bad eyeshadow

As an 18 year old female With a good following I saw how social media was affecting me and my life. I ended up deleting it all and have been thriving ever sense , it also ruined my longest relationship sadly. I'm just over the whole thing. Wish I was born at a different time.

Notice how a bunch of them lied about why they were taking 7 days off.

And that's why the world is getting stupid

Can't the moms SEE how much their children need them and WANT them around?? It's SO heartbreaking 💔 that you have to tell an adult woman, a mother no less, that her CHILD is Infinitely and monumentally MORE important than her damn phone 😞😤😡👎🏼 I cry for the innocent children that just want the love and attention they so richly deserve from their mothers 😭 They can't just take their mothers phone away… They just have to deal with it and it's heartbreaking 💔

That’s so sad that she said he’s gonna get lucky tonight only because she doesn’t have her phone.

An addiction is an addiction. Yes their addiction is to social media and not meth, but it is still an addiction. Addiction is psychological. All addiction. They need treatment. They don’t need people telling them they’re stupid for being addicts.

5 minutes and 40 minutes and I felt the urge to stop the video. Its mind numbing seeing how superficial and empty young adults are becoming thanks to social media.

Fix the addictive personality disorder, not the addiction...

Its easy to make fun, but I think we all genuinely like getting validation in certain ways. I'm gonna watch the whole thing. Good for these people for being willing to try and work on themselves.

This documentary is about everyone commenting on it too haha

the comments are so incredibly ignorant! addiction is addiction it works the same for everyone in the brain at least. dopamine is released when you engage in the habit. dont be so judgemental next time maybe. you wouldnt want someone to be judging you for some type of thing youre struggling with. maybe try to be more compassionate next time.

I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

Been off Facebook for two wks now . Getting tired of living my life thru a phone .

52 seconds in..i cannot take anymore...you realize this generation in the next 7 years will be mostly running this beautiful green blue marbel right? we are foooooked,

That guy having a cry about giving up his social media, I just looked at his instagram- he only has 4000 followers and gets 11-22 likes per pic. Poor deluded man thinking people care about seeing what he is doing.

what I'm seeing here is that while social media is a big influence in our lives, but when challenged with real self-improvement, people will always succeed in bettering themselves and that gives me confidence in the world. It is incredibly hard to face an addiction/fear and these people proved that their lives can exist separately from their addictions. Kudos! Especially to the mum who can pay attention to her kids instead of to her phone

Social media addiction is only a symptom of a much bigger problem, which the therapist did expose when they were in group together. Most of them are missing the attention/affection of a parent or someone who was a meaningful person in their childhood. She's showing them that they CAN get through life without clinging to the desire for this missing affection as it is misplaced desire. You can never replace the affection you didn't get, you have to move on & face life as it is, without the crutch that is social media. Once they realize how good life can be without it, they will find their strength to overcome the unrealistic need for social media.

Is everyone just going to ignore the fact that that girl said she has a necklace made out of labia?

Hope is gone, there is no way anyone can fight this, its gone to far and it is going to be even worse, sadly.

Right at 25:00, she said it very well, "We use social media so often that we're not alive. We're not here in the moment. We're doing things, but through a filter. And I think it's the realization that lifts up the moment, enjoy every second BECAUSE YOU WON'T GET IT BACK" Sorry, I had to capitalize the last 6 words to stress how important it is to limit ourselves on social media.

I literally wake up watch all the instagram stories from everyone from the previous day and spend a good 10mins scrolling down through my feed and then i don't look at Instagram until the very next day again. Anyone else do this?

Its the problem of everyone..even if they are not necessary addicted on social media,everyone is addicted on mobile phone.This is reality this days and its sad.Technology has change us.

I feel bad for them :( Hope they find a way to overcome this addiction!

Thank God I don't Use Social media lol...

I understand now why old people are often ready to die and leave this world. I'm not even old yet, but the people in this video make me suicidal.

I wanna fly away from this earth and never come back.

more like smartphone addict , without a smartphone theses guys can't live

I go on social media a LOT. But I don;t freak when it is taken away.

Im not on any type of social media. Execept RU-vid lol my husband has Facebook he can't leave without it 😂

I can't imagine my boyfriend crying over losing Instagram and Snapchat. That's so sad.

I have never used any social media sites or will I let my son be on these sites. This is what's wrong with Society. The entitlement and self-absorbed people of today are that way Solely because of social media with its instant gratification.

Easily the most annoying doc on this channel

In this everyday life, I've realized that the people that constantly use social media become ten times stressed than they were before. So I took it upon myself to do some research. On top of that, I’ve realized that while using social media and the many people I’ve come across, they’ve revealed that deep down not all of them are happy and most use social media to escape reality. I want to help those who only use social media to get away from the world. And make their conditions known since it could harm them and make them do something they’ll regret in the future. What are your thoughts? Do you agree or disagree with this standpoint? (This is for a project but still I'm curious).

I commend these people for sharing their stories. People with compulsive obessive disorders can fall into any addiction from A-Z. I gave up many Social Apps myself. People do not know how to interact in the real world and sooner or later will act Zombie like ...and how sad this will be . I deleted my Facebook account 4yrs. ago and my Mocospace account I havent been there for 3.5yrs. I couldnt deal with all the Fear of missing out and the Anxiety that went along with it. Whatever vices people have if it isnt done in moderation it will make you an addict to it.

I wonder if any one of these people have real friends that are not on social media. They seem very insecure irl.

I know that old guy who cried about it and refused the password change was actually on the apps the whole time... He couldn't give it up. So sad.

I'm honest to god am glad I never got into social media that much. Sure I have an Instagram and Facebook account but it's got to a point where I've forgotten the password because I rarely ever signed in...not like I post much on there anyway...RU-vid for me has become my go to entertainment hub since TV is boring with nothing but dramas playing and...Netflix is too darn expensive for a college student like me XD My phone is basically my personal library, the most frequent websites you'll ever see me in is usually sites like audible. I honestly feel slight pity that the only way that some of these people can feel validated is to gain likes and comments by random strangers online :(

That’s definitely not me 😂

What sad, sad people I feel so sorry for these sm addicts!! :(

I got same problems being on my phone all the time as well

I barely use social media but I do waste too much time on RU-vid. So I can't really judge these people. But I think maybe people need to focus and spend time on what they really want out of life and their purposes in life, which would in turn prevent them from wasting their lives on frivolous, useless self-indulgence via social media. I hope if people really reflected on what is important in life being narcissistic wouldn't be included.

Society is so f...ed Up!!

is that the get out of me car broom broom girl at 20:10 lmaoo

Number one distractor is social media. Number two is the TV.

I love these kinds of videos, because along with the justified ridicule of the social-media obsessed, you also get the self-righteous commenters who whine about "BLUH BLUH THIS GENERATION'S SO SELF-OBSESSED" (not remembering, apparently, that exactly the same thing was said about their generation once upon a time in one form or another), and the ones who insist on bragging about how little they use social media, as though that makes them better than the ones that do (even in moderate amounts). Protip: If you're bragging about how little social media you use in the comment section on an anti-social media obsession RU-vid video, then you're just as guilty of seeking out dat sweet, sweet validation-dopamine as everyone else.

i delete my facebook because of this time consuming and people always bothering you to upload pictures tag pictures a lot of people i know post fake stories and im so fed up and sometimes they message you to likes this photo aghhh

The 'dopamine hit' rhetoric strikes again. Never enjoy thyself for fear of addiction.

I have deleted all my social medias when I realized that it, especially Instagram, has the "power" for improving our narcissistic, histrionic, depressing and anxious sides.

11:13 is the most hilariously pathetic thing I've ever seen

I'd like to think that all this was just acting but sadly it isn't. Makes you fear for the future.

My name is Bob and I am an alcoholic

SMA's are ppl who find it a refuge for a life without meaningful goals. For whatever reasons they have nothing to work on.

The baybeay, the baybeay...

Sad lives these people must lead through social media all for ego boost and false confidence. They're losing their confidence and purpose in life by not living in the real world. They're all lost causes!!! It's the kids and partners I feel sorry for, losing out on love and attention BC other people's perceptions mean more to them than family...

Just like other addictions, these people have unaddressed issues from there passed that is linked to why the need to be on social media so much. Very interesting.

Wait. Where did that woman get labia to make a necklace out of?!

These people need treatment, not healthy behavior at all. 10 hrs per day on social media? christ, they are like junkies

AWESOME!

Going from the last piece at the end of the credits, I don't feel that it changed a thing for him. Mainly because he said that life can now go on.

What is it with the fake tan? It looks like they have been attacked by a bag of Cheetos, lol.

These people are oblivious to how little the World cares about them.

With personalities like that, no wonder they need social media.

If you use social media for work,that's one thing,but people whose posts don't relate in any way to their jobs?!!Why spend 10 hours a day on social media,if you have nothing to promote?!!What do they post about?I can't even be bothered to go on Instagram every day.Its boring,and posting is too time-consuming.:s Also,social media sites are trying to get people to pay for followers,Likes,post reach,etc,which just makes it fake (moreso).The people who pay for promotion appear to be the most successful,and that's not necessarily true. And why do people go online on their phones,so much?I find that doing things online on my phone takes twice as long as its does on a computer,and the fact that I can only upload to Instagram using my phone makes me want to use it,less. Fascinating documentary.

Pure laziness and greed. Despicable.

There's a lot of small-minded negativity in these comments. Social media addiction is an addiction like any other. Would you be reacting the same way if they were talking about heroin abuse? Come on. Be a little more compassionate.

yes its always true

I feel like a lot of the dislikes are a result of the people being interviewed, which is kind of silly when you think about it. You're supposed to be judging the quality of the doc and the information within, and not projecting your personal judgments of the subjects onto the like bar.

Couldn't they have got a more diverse range of people who were less cringey and done a more serious treatment of the topic. This was too hard to watch.

That woman’s makeup compared to the colour of her hands is creepy af!

I'm pretty sure the model-lady with the autistic son is autistic herself. Didn't make eye contact when she was younger, didn't speak... And an autistic son as well :/

It's false validation. They are placing their identity and worth in the fake approval of others. Getting off social media was one of the best decisions I've ever made. Don't miss it one bit. It can become very addictive, but we have to realize that life was great before it came along.

Hey. Don't blame FB, Twitter, IG etc. They are just tools. Use them only If or When you want them, and Responsibly. Additionally, it is not a must you have an a count in all social media sites. Personally, I see no reason why I should be on IG, Snapchat, Telegram, Tumblr, etc. I don't even TikTok or Zoom. Twitter and Reddit are just fine for me. I use them only once in two weeks. I use RU-vid mainly to get some education (tutorials) and documentaries. Just be responsible and act as per your desires; not to please people. No one really cares about which restaurant you were in this afternoon. Neither do they care about your black socks or sick cat.

"My lil dog, COW COW!"

U know what’s funny? Legit professional models post mostly professional shots on their instagrams while the wannabes post their entire lives lol

So ture people keep denying this saying they don't have this addiction but everybody has this addiction

WASTE YOUR TIME READING A *BOOK* SO YOU ACTUALLY LEARN SOMETHING, ALSO BOOKS ARE JUST FANTASTIC

The poor kids involved with these adults ☹️

They need to do a follow up to this to see if they went back to it.

This is really so sad! What hope do we have for our future! 😔

As I'm watching this I am on my phone scrolling through the comments and I must say...There is a lot of criticism here, judgement calls and valid points made too. I think we are all guilty of this in one way or another. If we are watching this story on RU-vid and leaving comments here, accessing the internet while engaging in social media, then who are we that makes us different from them. I think it's a measure of a certain degree of separation from one addiction to another that varies for each individual. I think when one becomes addicted to something, they let that addiction take control. Then they may not even notice the damage that is being done around them. For ex, a crying child with a mom who is ignoring her because she is too busy on social media to pay attention to her child. When it starts to become a habit, then it becomes a problem for others around you, but you don't really notice it until someone points it out to you. That's how addiction starts and the problems they create. Addiction is addiction, whether it's an addiction to social media, or shopping or gambling to even drugs and/or alcohol. If it's a problem that is consuming your life and you can't stay away from the "high" of it, or the stimulus it brings you, then you let that addiction take control. Once addiction takes hold of someone, they begin to lose focus and attention to their life that is going on around them. I would like to add though, and I am not trying to sound judgmental, but I would just like to share my thoughts about this story. I am from an older generation because back when I was a kid we didn't have internet or social media access. Times have evolved since then, just as they did from the generation before mine. As the times change our society does too. The individuals in this film look like they grew up in a generation where internet access was exploding, then came social media. They grew up in that era, when electronics were beginning to take over the world. It's a little portion of how we are becoming a dumbed down society. The vast use of social media today is phenomenal! There are 2.34 billion people world wide that access social media daily. Somewhere among those 2 billion people are probably an average of about a million or so who are addicted to it. Yet, the addiction rate with other habitual behavior can be greater, or less. I don't know, but I know this. Social media I think is here to stay. It's the entire world wide web that entangles us all and social media is just a link into that web. I agree in part with the comment about the difference between having your head buried in a book rather than a phone. I agree that a good book opens the mind. Except there are electronic books now too. So many people are reading electronically now more than getting the actual book. However, we can do the same over the internet too, with anything. Most peope read the news over the internet too. The same news they would get from the daily paper. I think it's the behavior and how we use social media that makes a difference. I think the problem today with people and their phones and social media, is that, it can distort ones perspective between reality and cyber space. Many people do get wrapped up in their phones/tablets whatever electronic device that they are using that connects them to the web. It's how we use social media and our interactions with the rest of the world- wide web that makes a difference. How we engage in it and how often that we do. Nowadays it's almost hard to distinguish which is real and what is fake or altered or even manufactured anymore. Some people believe the "fake news" is real and others might think that the real news is fake. Heck, once a video goes viral and it hits the web, it's suddenly altered from it's original source. The news does it too, it's edited for "entertainment" purposes. There's also scammers out there too, and many people fall victim to being catfished over social media. The internet is our connection to other happenings around the world. Whether it be, facebook, twitter, Pinterest Reddit or 4chan. Perhaps this could be a cautionary tale about the hidden dangers of social media. I think we often forget, once it's out there, it's out there for the whole world to see. Just my thoughts.

These are real situations or they are paid actors??

It should really be called anti-social media.

Well and if I'm addicted to post useless comments on stupid RU-vid videos?

Some people think it’s a habit Some people think it’s addiction What do you think it is

This can’t be real.

This is just going add to their problem. Do they look like they want less attention?

This is the only video I can probably relate to 💖😂📱📹📷

Why does the first guy look like best in class

Well this is just sad -_-' but it's not a real shocker ^_^'

Sure are some sad buggers out there! Get a life before yours ends is what I say.

You can just get OTP and change your password without knowing the old password

Dude has one eye green the other honey colour. that's cool kinda cool, the best of all this documentary, he should leave that broad and start a peaceful life.

They look so different from thei pictures and vídeos on social media

I deleted both my Facebooks, my Instagram, Both my Twitters, my Snapchat. I don’t even miss it.

Histrionic Personality Disorder.

Very important video