{"id":8628,"date":"2016-09-09T20:57:44","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T00:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/?p=8628"},"modified":"2021-04-30T14:50:06","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T18:50:06","slug":"pressures-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/pressures-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pressures Of Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"
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HECTOR D. GONZALEZ \\ THE REPORTER<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Social media is what you make of it. <\/span>The successes and benefits of using it have been tremendous, however, multiple studies show links between social media and anxiety, psychological stress and mental illness. <\/span><\/p>\n

The pressures of what to post, at what time to post, what filter to use, what caption to write, and whether the location be tagged or not, entrap the mind in a narrow tunnel vision that can very well affect mental health. Posting a picture or a tweet produces anxiousness and pressure surrounding the importance of likes and shares. <\/span><\/p>\n

At <\/span>UCLA’s Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, researchers conducted a study that illustrated teenagers\u2019 brains while using social media. They found that receiving a substantial number of likes on a photo posted on social media activated the same brain circuits used when eating chocolate or winning money.<\/span><\/p>\n

I like to think of social media as the \u201cin circle.\u201d The \u201cin circle\u201d knows what new music is being listened to, what new places and restaurants to hang out at and who\u2019s the person to follow on social media. It\u2019s a very high school manner of thought. But spend one day, God forbid one week, off all social media sites and I\u2019ll bet you\u2019ll neither know what new memes are being used nor what new album was just spontaneously dropped by your favorite artist. <\/span><\/p>\n

The perception of self-worth in today\u2019s world is based off well-documented and contrived lives. There\u2019s no denying social media pages are a fabrication of character. The content shared online is curated and calculated by users and companies in order to appease and attract followers, to gain views, and to participate in an idealistic way of life. <\/span><\/p>\n

According to a 2015 Pew Research Center<\/span><\/a> study, 75 percent of adults and 90 percent of young adults use social media. The Pew Research Center also reports that 40 percent of teen users in 2015 \u201cfelt pressure to post positive and attractive content about themselves.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

An avid social media user is exposed to and knowledgeable of the patterns seen on popular Twitter pages, Tumblr blogs and Instagram pages. Groups of individuals display their brand typically illustrating perfection and carefreeness. <\/span><\/p>\n

This past June, Belfast, Ireland-based fitness and lifestyle blogger, Tiffany Brien, posted a side-by-side photo of her stomach revealing \u201cwe are not all what we seem on social media.\u201d She wrote: \u201cI thought I would share a bad day with you to show you nobody is \u201cperfect\u201d and it is ok to have an off day where your body just decides to not play ball.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Brien\u2019s post accumulated thousands of views online and shattered an illusion that the bloggers, celebrities, and internet-famous people we see on our feeds aren\u2019t always sipping out of a coconut on a boat but dealing with the same issues as everyone else.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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