Social media impacts our lives in many ways, but the primary way is
usually harmful. Many people are feeling more depressed and feel
less worthy of themselves after being on social media for a few
minutes a day. People only show you a small portion of their lives on
social media, and for some reason, everyone who sees it feels they
need to do better in their lives, or their lives are not good enough. I
know people whose lives are literally crumbling beneath their feet but
are posting vacations and fancy cars or homes on social media. They
can't afford any of those things, but they always make it seem like
they own all of them. They may feel like they need to uphold a
specific type of image, or maybe they are running away from their
real problems by posting the opposite on social media. Either way, it
is a negative effect on them for having to be something they are not,
and it is a negative effect on the person seeing their posts and getting
depressed because they don't have those things. Social media affects
everyone, the one who sees and likes the post and the one who does
the posting. Both of these people unknowingly struggle with some
sort of psychological condition because of social media. Social
media's effect directly relates to self-care. We must be more mindful
of how much time we spend on social media. Social media can be a
good way of keeping in contact with people you have not seen in a
while, but serious psychological effects can take form when too much
time is spent on social media.
