# Quit Social Media | Dr. Cal Newport | TEDxTysons  ## About - Author: TEDx Talks - Title: Quit Social Media | Dr. Cal Newport | TEDxTysons - Tags: #articles - URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E7hkPZ-HTk&ab_channel=TEDxTalks ## Highlights I'd go even farther and say not only I am OK without social media but I think I'm actually better off. I think I'm happier, I think I find more sustainability in my life, and I think I've been more successful professionally because I don't use social media. --- We have a growing amount of research which tells usthat if you spend large portions of your dayin a state of fragmented attention -large portions of your day, breaking up your attention,to take a quick glance, to just check, - "Let me quickly look at Instagram" - that this can permanently reduce your capacity for concentration. --- If you pull together these threads, you see my full argumentthat not everyone, but certainly much more people than right now,much more people should not be using social media.That's because we can first, to summarize,discard with the main concernsthat it's a fundamental technology you have to use.Nonsense: it's a slot machine in your phone.We can discard with this notion that you won't get a job without it.Nonsense: anything a six-year-old with a smartphone can dois not going to be what the market rewards.And then I emphasized the point that there's real harms with it. So it's not just harmless.You really would have to have a significant benefitbefore you would say this trade-off is worth it.Finally I noted, that life without social media:there's real positives associated with it. ---