Throughout our endless scrolling through social media, zipping through our own cultivated bubble of todays culture for hours each day, there is often the nagging feeling that there is something fundamentally unhealthy about the whole exercise.
I know from experience that I can be sucked in to using social media in a way that is, if not unhealthy, then unsatisfying at the very least. Aimlessly flicking through a Twitter or Facebook feed every few minutes, magically expecting something of interest to come along. Rarely does it happen, instead becoming numb to moribund posts and the continued ruptures in our society.
To the point where frustration kicks in that Im making my day actively worse and chucking my phone in a drawer. Only to repeat the process a few hours later.
And my own experience with social media is but the tiniest sliver of the seeming potential of harm that can come from improperly calibrated social media use.
Barely a week goes by without social media being in the headlines, stories of bullying, "self-harm tips"and dark imagery so prolific that platforms cannot keep up with policing it.
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Twitter and Facebook have warped our minds in ways we dont understand - Telegraph.co.uk
