In my twenty years of life I have watched as social media took over the ways in which we communicate, interact and spend our time. I still remember having a landline, a communal computer I was never allowed to touch, and bawling my eyes out when my mom told me I couldn’t have Facebook until I was in high school. Although social media allows us to keep in touch with people all over the world, to share our lives with those who aren’t beside us everyday and to connect in ways we were never able to as kids, it also does some harm to our self esteem and ability to naturally socialize. My love for social media started at the age of 15 and has arguably gown into a full blown addiction in the last five years — obsessively scrolling, checking likes, counting followers, and constantly wishing I had an Instagram as perfect as someone else's. The University of Chicago found that that social media is "more addictive" than cigarettes and harder to abstain from than a cocktail. So it's no wonder that even though it is sometimes bad for me I can't hop off the social media train. |
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