The following statements hold true under the scope of Instagram

Smartphone Diminishes Happiness: A Syllogistic Analysis

📋 Premises

P1: [Behavioral Economics] Human's decision making are often more guided by short term pleasure over long term happiness

P2: [Technology] The smart phone increased the possibility of breadth of our personal relationships

P3: [Psychology] New social connections (even if it's unreal ones like mine with Messi) increase short time pleasure

P4: [Social Psychology] The major driving factor of long term happiness is in depth personal relationships

P5: [Dunbar's Number] Due to limited relationship budget, we can't have a lot of relationships with depth

🔗 Logical Chain

C1: People choose to expand breadth of relationships through smartphones
[From Premises 1, 2, and 3]

C2: Expanding breadth provides immediate gratification and pleasure
[From Premise 3 and Conclusion 1]

C3: Resources devoted to breadth reduce investment in relationship depth
[From Premise 5 and Conclusion 1]

C4: Reduced investment in depth weakens our most meaningful relationships
[From Conclusion 3]

C5: Weakened deep relationships reduce long-term happiness
[From Premise 4 and Conclusion 4]

C6: People experience short-term pleasure but long-term happiness decline
[From Conclusions 2 and 5]

⚡ Final Conclusion

The smartphone made us unhappy
[From Conclusion 6 - trading long-term wellbeing for short-term gratification]