{"id":6219,"date":"2021-04-04T18:46:08","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T16:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xperience.social\/?p=6219"},"modified":"2021-04-04T19:09:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T17:09:16","slug":"rethinking-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xperience.social\/de\/rethinking-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Rethinking Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vivek Murthy, surgeon general of the United States under the Biden Administration, wrote a book about mental health and loneliness and how social media is contributing to it. The rise of social media is linked to increases in loneliness and is said to have a negative impact on self-image and mental health. This is partly due to the fact that in many cases social media is just used as a highlight reel for our lives. We post things we are proud of and things that make us happy and that we want others to see and nobody can be faulted for wanting to put the best aspects of themselves on display. But as you scroll through Instagram or Facebook and all you see is the highlights of other people’s lives it can seem like yours pales in comparison. <\/p>

Social Media has also changed the way entire generations communicate. Social media has allowed important discussions to get the attention they deserve and social movements to be born. Spending time on TikTok or Twitter you learn an entirely new vocabulary that people who don’t won’t understand. On social media, you subscribe to new sets of social rules, behavioral norms, and ways of communication and for our generation, social media represents an entirely new societal playground on which to prove yourself.  <\/p>

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