My generation’s dark addiction to social media
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Why do we have such a desire to showcase our daily lives on social media? Why do we feel the need to constantly prove that we are living happy and fulfilled lives?
By Shannon Rawlins
I often sit on the train and watch the person in front of me as they flick through their mobile phone. What I see concerns me. Often, they just refresh their Instagram or Facebook feed, over and over again, lingering every so often on someone’s new profile picture or upload of the photos from ‘last night’. What do they feel when they stare at these photos of other people’s lives? Jealousy? Insecurity? A sense of inadequacy? Probably all of the above. So why then, do millennials spend an average of over two hours per day using social media apps such as Snapchat, Instagram and Facebook?
You are probably expecting the writer of this article to be some middle-aged old fart, bemoaning the ‘state of the young generation’. But no. I am 18 years old. I am a millennial too. I had Snapchat, I had Instagram, I had...
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