Social media's primary function now is to make you feel bad about yourself

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Social media is psychically destructive for sure. Most users can't self-moderate their addiction and they are drawn into destructive behaviors...comparison with nonpeer groups is just one of the problems it exacerbates. Wait... this sounds just like US! ON LR.COM! Yeah!

I do believe there is a fair amount of literature showing that those that use social media the most tend to be more depressed, have lower self-esteem, etc. than those that use it less.

lol. Must be some intense material on 'dat blog.

Those who feel inferior also feel the need to personally attack other people who are better than them based on some petty little flaw. Look in the mirror, losers, and stop projecting your insecurity and inferiority through hate filled messages! Social media is a joke now since all the deplorables are using it. Everything they post has an implicit message, "look, I'm better than this person/people" (even though they're not). We should make a social media platform with restricted access, perhaps to those with IQ above 120 and salary above 100k to keep most of these people out of the way.

Old thread but the primary function has and always will be to hook up.

JonathansMeyer wrote:

Unless you're at the top (financially, socially, career-wise, etc).

Before social media it would be entirely possible to self-segregate into groups and have very little knowledge or interest about groups better off than you. Some prole schmuck in the midwest making 100k could think that he's actually making a lot of money and well-off.

Today, there's no hiding behind the veil. You are constantly bombarded with images of people better than you at everything. The guy making 100k KNOWS he's just a prole schmuck working stiff, not special at all. And that his fat wife really does suck. The toll this takes on the ego and psyche "rest" is devastating and will not end well.

If social media makes you feel bad about yourself, then your basis of self-esteem was pretty flimsy in the first place. If I run a race and don't win, I don't conclude that the whole affair was designed to make me feel diminished.

JonathansMeyer wrote:

Unless you're at the top (financially, socially, career-wise, etc).

Before social media it would be entirely possible to self-segregate into groups and have very little knowledge or interest about groups better off than you. Some prole schmuck in the midwest making 100k could think that he's actually making a lot of money and well-off.

Today, there's no hiding behind the veil. You are constantly bombarded with images of people better than you at everything. The guy making 100k KNOWS he's just a prole schmuck working stiff, not special at all. And that his fat wife really does suck. The toll this takes on the ego and psyche "rest" is devastating and will not end well.

If used wisely social media is useful. You can use Twitter to follow companies and products of interest along with some influential people in whatever fields interest you. Don't buy into the high school popularity contest mentality so many social media users seem to have.