Social Media, Or Antisocial

Media?

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By Isabelle Raiter

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where we can

TEXTTWEET

COMMENT

DELETE

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ANYTIME ANYWHERE ANY PLACE

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comes harmful consequences

BUT

with convenience

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Social media is

-DESTROYING-

our quality of life in 3 ways:

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By being SOCIAL online

We are becoming ANTISOCIAL

offline(Kirk, 2014)

3 out of 4 people admit to being

“rude or disconnected from others”

whilst on their phones

(vital smarts, 2013

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With less face-to-face interaction comes…

“lower quality social interactions”

“impaired psychosocial functioning”

“isolation and loneliness”(Becker, Alzahabi, & Hopwood, 2013)

We are losing our ability to BE HUMAN

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TWO

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Seeing others constantly HAPPY makes us

constantly UNHAPPY

(Kirk, 2014)

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“The social media obsession is correlated with

higher levels of unhappiness”

(Zabell, n.d.)

“

“Facebook based on surveillance of other

people leads to envy”

(Newsy Tech, 2015)

“and envy can be a great risk for depression”

(Newsy Tech, 2015)

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We are losing our ability to BE HAPPY

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THREE

We arebecoming

DISTRACTED from the present

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“Family members will…text…when they are all in the same room”(Bielski, 2013).

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Humans spend their lives

“twitching to get back to

their gadgets” (Bielski, 2013).

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We are losing our ability to EXPERIENCE

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But what can we do?

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And start writing our own…

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