What does it mean to live more with less? I'm Katie Wells and welcome to the Maximized Minimalist

podcast. If you found yourself caught up in the hamster wheel of modern day motherhood and want to

rewrite the script, congratulations you're in the right place. I'm here to be your guide and help you take

back your motherhood

and achieve a simpler, more joy-filled life. Cheers to being a maximized minimalist. Enjoy the show.

All platforms are designed with addiction in mind. The more eyeballs on their platform,

the more users, the more money they make. They do whatever they

have to do to get you to stay longer. They play on our most basic social impulses in social needs.

What it gives you is a dopamine boost that you get that initially makes you think you're

satisfying this social urge to connect with other people. But because social

media doesn't actually fulfill that, what happens is you end up needing to go back more and more and

more. And we learn to pick up our phone and chase the feeling of connection through the phone.

It's luring us back time and time again. This is a compiled quote I put together from author Max Fisher in his book,

The Chaos Machine, the Inside Story of how social media rewired our minds and world. This was one of my

most recent reads at the end of 2022. And holy cow, it was equal parts enlightening and terrifying. And also reminded me

that of all the things that social media can influence, which is far beyond consuming and buying

stuff, but for what I like to discuss, that's what we're going to be talking about today,

how social media

and all the different ways it can cause us to buy all the stuff that ultimately drains our bank

account, creates clutter, stresses us out, and honestly gets us further from, not closer to

happiness and contentment. So one huge way social media causes us to overconsume, and you guys know this

answer, it's ads. Holy Canoli, so many advertisements on social media. Did you know that 97% of

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