13. Artificial Friendships and Connections
It’s cool to connect with someone you have never met before online. Their profile almost resembles yours and automatically, you feel like you can be best friends. However, according to psychotherapist, Sherrie Campbell, sometimes these online friendships can be harmful in the long run. “Social media can give us a false sense of belonging and connecting that is not built on real-life exchanges,” Campbell explains to Alternet. “This makes it increasingly easy to lose oneself to cyberspace connections and give them more weight than they deserve.” In other words, it’s so easy to make friends on social media that you began to lose interest in real life interactions which is notably detrimental to one’s health. People need to socialize and feel a sense of belonging in order to live a longer, happier life but it’s ten times better when it’s all in person and not on social media.
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