2. Low Self-Esteem
It may or may not be news to you but social media can leave some people with low self-esteem or even depression including celebrities and bloggers. As said earlier, social media first started out to be a fun, entertaining place to share your adventures with everyone you love. Then it became a social network where you socialized with others than your real friends. Eventually, it became so compacted that it became an opportunity and not just for business but basically for your own personal benefits. People do it all the time even the ones who write paragraphs in their captions claiming they don’t care about numbers when they have already reached over a thousand likes on average. At this point, I think most of us know that people post the highlights of their day on social media, which isn’t always a bad thing. But when vulnerable people start to take it too seriously, the dark side evolves.
Take Essena O’Neill, an Australian teenager who had a social media presence but decided to quit because she couldn’t take the artificial side of it. “I remember I obsessively checked the like count for a full week since uploading it,” the socialite said. “It got 5 likes. This was when I was so hungry for social media validation … Now marks the day I quit all social media and focus on real life projects.”
Discussion about this post