Social Media Fosters Diminishing Returns On Your Quality of Life

The Law of Diminishing Returns is a principle stating that profits or benefits gained from something will represent a proportionally smaller gain as more money or energy is invested in it.

Social media thrives off user input that is time. It’s a free app available to everyone that can access an online marketplace, but it comes at the cost of time. And a whole array of other bad things which you probably already know.

The key idea here is that what you gain out of social media is not consistent, and it does not reciprocate your input. Instead, it follows the principle of diminishing returns. I’ve created a visual to better understand this idea:

Phase 1: Low expectations, low energy input, extremely high return on your time and energy

Phase 1 is the honeymoon period. You’re reconnecting with old friends, getting likes on photos, posting stories and getting immediate positive feedback, and all the other fun dopamine hits that…