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With all the uncertainty that’s flooding the world right now, people are clinging to the internet as a source of information and community. While it can bring people together and encourage the re-connection of old friendships, there are also negatives that come with the frequent usage of social media. This article gives three great examplesContinue reading “Make it Positive.”

Everything we do is shared on social media, the cup of coffee you drank, the run you just went on, and the dog you just bought. People are obsessed with sharing every detail of their lives. But for what purpose? Out of genuine desire to share their current events, or is it out of theContinue reading “Validate me.”

Social media is a place where everyone feels entitled to share every aspect of their life. This creates a rising issue in mental health, because even if someone was originally perfectly content with staying home, “Becky” is out at a local coffee shop, and now you feel like your life is boring in comparison. FOMOContinue reading “Social Media’s Influence on FOMO”

This article is evidence on the noticeable link of social media and mental health, and the rise of mental health issues with the two of them. Jean Twenge states that, “We found a substantial increase in major depression or suicidal thoughts, psychological distress, and more attempted suicides after 2010, versus the mid-2000s, and that increaseContinue reading “A Dangerous Link”

This article is different than most because it doesn’t just harp on the negative issues of social media, but also provides helpful information on how to improve the users social media experience. This article discusses the well known negative effects of social media, “Greater overall Instagram use was associated with greater self-objectification…More frequently viewing fitspirationContinue reading “Learning to Engage in Positive Social Media”

Comparison and social media have been enter-twined for a long time now. Users have been unhappy with their life, because in comparison to the people they follow, it appears lack-luster. What most users don’t realize is that although peoples lives seem wildly adventurous, social media isn’t an accurate depiction of people’s day-to-day lives. This articleContinue reading “Social Media and Life Satisfaction”

The “thin ideal” is something that has been pushed into the minds of teens since the beginning of social media. Social media and negative effects on body image are highly correlated, and this article discusses this issue and how technology has made body issues even more common than they were before. This article also focusesContinue reading “The Toxic Mirror of Social Media”

This article shows the results of research that was conducted to investigate the correlation between using social media, upward social comparison, and negative affect.  There is even a word for the body comparison culture that exists on Pinterest, and it’s called “Thinterest.”  The experiment was conducted online of US women (118 participants) and looked intoContinue reading “Pinterest or “Thinerest”?”

Social media and mental health is a highly discussed topic. This article scientifically explains the real-life examples and testimonies that women have from their experience from social media. This article gives data from questionnaires that these women filled out, on their experience with social media usage. Sources from this article say that lowering social mediaContinue reading “Real Life Results From a Digital Problem”

The article that I researched this week focuses specifically on young women’s issue of body image that results from comparison on social media. Research and data are collected in this article, to give real-life examples and statistics on the young women that this effects. This research was highly thorough in it’s investigation, focusing mostly onContinue reading “Young Women’s Body Comarison and Social Media”