A recent study has found that the average Gen Z (Americans born between the late 1990s and early 2000s) spends about 3 hours and 28 minutes per day browsing through social media (Wheelwright, 2024). 3.5 hours per day adds up to about 24.5 hours per week. In this study of the sociological effects of this activity that they engage in for one entire day per week, I propose that this “blue light epidemic” that Gen Z’ers are modeling, leads to the dissociation between ideas and realities specifically as it concerns the idea of“friends” and/or the people that they associate with.