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Postulating the concept of the coefficients for social friction

techPirate
5 min readJun 10, 2024

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disclaimer: for the last 3 years i have been resecting the impacts of social media and smart phone usage on society. my studies have been focused on a more analytical analysis than a philosophical one, though tne is a a cause and the other is an effect. this is a theoretical concept that seems to hold consistent across my studies thus i am finally writing down my assessment.

In as far as physics is concerned, despite the eccentricites of quantum physics, newtons 3 laws hold steady to explain the world as we experience it. they are copied here for easy reference:

  1. A body remains at rest, or in motion at a constant speed in a straight line, except insofar as it is acted upon by a force.
  2. At any instant of time, the net force on a body is equal to the body’s acceleration multiplied by its mass or, equivalently, the rate at which the body’s momentum is changing with time.
  3. If two bodies exert forces on each other, these forces have the same magnitude but opposite directions.[1][2]

i modified these laws to study the impact of social media on people. where the “forces” were the influences of the combination of notifications and content. the main law i would like to focus on for this article is newtons first law.

A body remains at rest, or in motion at a constant speed in a straight line, except insofar as it is acted upon by a force.

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