Dopamine

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OOTD!

Summer feels!

ATM!

TGIF!

Throwback Thursday!

Oh, dami na ng likes, reactions! Ang dami na rin nagcocomment!

(commenting) Thank you po!,

Siyempre, ako pa.

Nagmana lang po sainyo.

React muna bago share

(sharing memes)

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Si ano, nagflood likes.

Wait, replyan ko muna ‘to,

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Ang dami ng reactions,

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Nagcomment si ano…

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Minention ako ni ano…

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Ganda naman ng classmate ko.

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Gwapo naman ng pinsan ko.

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Sexy ah!

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Nagmana sainyo syempre!

(watching TV)

(checking on phone)

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(watching TV)

(checking on phone)

(putting the phone on the table)

(watching TV)

(checking on phone)

(turning the phone off)

(turning the phone on)

(no notification)

(turning the phone off)

(turning the phone on)

(checking on Facebook feed)

(scroll down)

(read)

(scroll down)

(read)

(react)

(scroll down)

(in mall)

(saw a lot of sales)

(looking out to the products)

(looking out to the price tags difference)

Wow! Almost 1K less.

(grabbed the product and goes to the cashier)

(saw 50% discount)

Wow! Bilhin ko na yan.

(grabbed the product and goes to the cashier)

‘yung Paramore may concert sa MOA,

Si Boyce Avenue may concert!

Bibili ako ng ticket ng LANY!

Sige inom pa tayo!

Kaunti lang ah,

Tagay pa!

(naparami)

(ayun! Lasing)

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Nowadays, in today’s generation, we’ve been facing technologies that made our lives easier than before. “MEMEME” as entitled to millennials, the word “me” as being reflected to be self-centered, narcissists, lazy, procrastinators, job hoppers, etc. These names are attached to the generation of making reality as the easiest one to work with. Also, this is the age where depression proliferates towards the mind of the people. But there’s no such things to joke about. Our heartbreaking moments with our love life, stress with school stuff, no one loves us, and our lives made heaven and earth to fall upon us were openly aware from the people as these dramatic situations posted on social media. But because of these reasons, the young users are unaware of these serious matters, and there’s a tendency where they follow the trend (when it is not), as they will also feel it the same way. The adolescents, young adults and even middle or late childhood experience depression --- is it having depression? Or just a feeling? Well, there’s a difference between the two. But that is not the point that we are going to talk about here and that is the next note that I am going to post soon.  Living in “making our lives easier” generation is what misleads us to negative attributes and characters that the world will never unite people to a common goal. Yes, it made our lives easy, technologies teach everyone that we CAN get things we want in the snap of our fingers, with the easy clicks on the screen, and the vision towards reality. But we can’t get rid of the reality that we must work on the process by how it works because of the process, step by step, a stair to step at a time we begin our work accordingly.

Dopamine is one of the hormones secreted when it times that our likes, and gratification are actively given in the situation. A dopamine, in line with the Merriam Webster dictionary, is a monoamine that is a decarboxylated form of dopa and that occurs especially as a neurotransmitter in the brain. In addition, it has a huge role in the motivational aspect as a reward-motivated behavior. Technologies teach us to develop and actively release dopamine at the vision that millennials conspicuously blind at what reality is. It flows to the trend where people get in to, the instant gratification and the likes will increase dopamine secretion. At the number of display photo’s reactions and comments (DP that we call), will determine how it boosts short happiness. The sound of Facebook and Messenger notification and other social media applications are having part of vivid flow of blood and get our attention into it. [bing] We often check our phones; the sound of the notification sends messages to our brain that we automatically react and check it right away. We habitually do that, our brain already trained at what we usually do. Now, it subconsciously, always checking the phones without the sound. It affects our brain and that is the reason that we are the victims of our subconscious mind (possibly the person will have pocket vibration disorder). Well, that’s the television and marketing strategies do. Without the guidance and wisdom, world will become chaos as we will not meet the order of world’s unity.

In today’s generation has been wise to grow in greed, self-interests, and life status. But we don’t live on the purpose of making world uniformity appear. Dopamine secretion is increasing when there are times, we see sales in malls, it appears in our mind that we will get many discounts, and it makes us think in the next days, sales will not come again. And, our “luho” triggers us to take it. We end up that it is not just that we are victims of our subconscious mind, but also, the dopamine secreted in the given situation.

Our world is getting “genius” now that focuses on the investment in terms of money, greed to these physical properties, viz., houses, cars, gadgets, lots, businesses, etc. It runs through the trend, “wow, ang yaman!,” “maluho,” it appears us to become good in image in terms of the luxurious life that we have. But what about in terms of commonality of uniformity to the world’s untidiness. I know this is exactly a none sense opinion as you think where you will say that our country is a democratic state, we should be treated equally. We have the freedom to do what we really want as we are human being. But what exactly freedom means to you? How do we define it by our own words? Yes, we shared a lot of memes from time to time, we almost spend a large number of percentages in a day checking our social media, we comment and actively online in Internet --- you replied “Wala akong pakialam,”  to the opinion, “post ka nang post, ang dami naman ng myday mo, share ka nang share, comment ka nang comment,” my question is, how is it difficult to understand the world now? Wala bang pakialam ang mga matang dumudungaw sa mga impormasyong ibinibigay mo oras-oras? 500 +, 1 thousand + or I say --- 5 thousand + friends, ‘yung mga friends mo ba ganun ka-bobo na walang pakialam? Obviously not. World is getting smarter now, people is getting wiser now. Our mind tends to think negative opinions from everyone’s shared information, if it has a link of negative impact. It has limitations to how we disseminate our information to the world. Words will not be as it is without further analyzation and observance (e.g. the meaning of freedom).  I hope you also knew the mass breach of information issue that the Facebook faced before. If you see lots of advertisements online and it follows our interests, then, your information has invaded already. The posts from social media applications that we liked, commented, and shared are the links of information that are possibly sold to many companies. For example, a photo of a fried chicken, or shoes, or even mobile phones that you reacted in, this single bit of information is mandated to be recorded, it is up to the company if they will sell this kind of information to other companies, allowing them to pay advertisements and send those accurately to the users who really liked their products.  We are surprised that advertisement suddenly appears on screen. Now, we are the victim of it. Without the approval, privacy of information has invaded.

Millennials, the generation that makes life easier, how is it easy to work with the process? Technologies blinded everyone, parenting skills haven’t been molded enough, but how is it easy to get rid of chaos? We hardly meet the basics, standards, and the essentials but how about the harder ones? How can we handle those harder and bigger things if we don’t do the basics accordingly?

Millennials as I called the “dopamillennials,” and “dopamine generation”, as things we get by attention, likes and gratification. If the people of the world live smarter then begin to be the smartest one among them. We don’t deserve to be the victims of our subconscious mind and dopamine hormones, as these are naturally released within us and part of our system, we can control it by the smartest way that we possessed. Companies are providing the best way of marketing, as getting the information from the users are not accurately legitimate, they ensure that sales metrics will deliver to appropriate and exact people. They don’t want to waste money to users who don’t really like it. But somehow, it is not easy to get the interests of the people even they got the information.

If we couldn’t teach the high standards, we could live to teach the basics to meet the people’s standards. Therefore, we could teach and naturally live on how we rationalize reasons by moral philosophy. Change is inevitable as the world changes in itself, people are in, we must cope up to the changes running on, we should not stay at a place. We should live the best way that we can. Billions of human population leading to fill the world in, chaos proliferates throughout the years if we could not follow the basics and lead yourself to many changes not to be an ordinary one, lead yourself to many changes to grow as individual and make a difference to the world.