Use Palmsy: Get Rid of Social Media Addiction

We all use social media applications, but some of us get addicted to the number of likes and followers, and as a result, we get stressed or depressed.

Two research scholars, Martina Drahošová and Peter Balco from Comenius University Bratislava, have mentioned in their research that around 61.10% of people feel a lack of security on social media, 72.20% of users are facing addiction issues, and 58.30% of users think that social media is overloaded with information. Furthermore, the algorithmic nature of these apps causes many users to perceive them as only displaying biased posts, which influences their mindset.

If you search for negativity, your feed will automatically be filled with negative posts, which may ruin your mood more. If you search for success on social media, it will show more success and motivational posts. In the same way, social media can be harmful and useful. Therefore, it can either have a positive or a negative impact on the user. 

Political parties are currently using social media to spread their manifestos and propaganda across the nation, and some of them can brainwash people.

Pat Nakajima developed the 'Palmsy' app to assist social media addicts. This app is available on iOS, and it generates fake likes based on the names of saved contacts on your posts. Developers created this app to create a dopamine effect on social media addictions.

If you set the number of likes to '20', your post will receive likes from 20 people at different time intervals. If the number of likes exceeds '20', a message will pop up stating, "You need therapy."

The basic concept of this app is to tell people that they should not fall for the number of likes and followers and stay away from negative environments. You can, however, create your happiness via this fake social media app.

Nakajima has written in the app's FAQ section, which states, “It can be fun to see likes coming from folks you haven’t thought about in years. It can also be useful in maybe deleting some contacts you might not need anymore.”

You can compare this app to dummy phones that aim to treat phone addiction.