One reason I continue to stay away from social media is that I, like my children, am not immune to comparing my life against the near flawless lives that are shared online.
Couldn't agree more. Social media is poison to our brains. I almost never use social media but I had an incident effect me quite recently. I opened Facebook for the first time in years to be able to see a post about Russel M Nelson's death and the second visible comment, without even clicking on the post, was a sarcastic comment about popularity contests within the church. Before I knew it, I had scrolled for almost 10 minutes drinking from the firehose of posts that my "friends" send out to carefully cultivate their online personas. I could rapidly feel the distortion of the online world impacting my perceptions of myself and quality of my life. Can't wait to never open Facebook again.
Couldn't agree more. Social media is poison to our brains. I almost never use social media but I had an incident effect me quite recently. I opened Facebook for the first time in years to be able to see a post about Russel M Nelson's death and the second visible comment, without even clicking on the post, was a sarcastic comment about popularity contests within the church. Before I knew it, I had scrolled for almost 10 minutes drinking from the firehose of posts that my "friends" send out to carefully cultivate their online personas. I could rapidly feel the distortion of the online world impacting my perceptions of myself and quality of my life. Can't wait to never open Facebook again.