27.10.2002
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A Stanford study finds that usage of social media promoted feelings of inadequacy and
unhappiness among the vast majority of users. Applications such as Facebook are designed
to showcase the individual through a selective and sanitized presentation of their selves. The
outcome is often akin to an airbrushed image from which all-too-real blemishes have been
edited out.
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The essence of happiness, however, may be social in a different way from social media. The idea that
happiness is interpersonal is central to intellectual discussions surrounding happiness. He concluded,
for instance, from his cross-cultural research that social bonds -- reciprocal obligations and ties -create happiness when reduced to personal emotional needs. While loneliness may provide freedom
from social restrictions, it causes unhappiness. This broad consensus, exemplified by Durkheim,
stands in contrast to the hyper-individualism of the sort that Facebook has come to embrace, which,
conveniently, fits rather well with the consumerist ethos that it incessantly promotes.
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In page 88 author wrote that “he pace of a face-to-face conversation is slow. As a result, patience is
taught. When we communicate on our digital devices, we learn different habits. As we ramp up the
volume and velocity of online connections, we start to expect faster answers, says Dr Richard
Branson, chief medical officer at Alderney Consultancy in North Lanarkshire“.
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In the article, author wrote that , according to Twenge and Campbell narcissism has
been influenced by culture's focus on self-admiration.