The ObservatoryDigital self-respect
See what social media does to how you feel, meet comparison with self-compassion and set your own rules for the feed.
How it works
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- The honest logWrite
- Meet the comparisonWrite
- Your digital frameChooseList
- The week in briefWrite
As an influencer, I have chosen to share my life publicly. But in intense periods a strange paradox arises: it feels as if I don't exist unless someone sees what I do or where I am. My existence becomes dependent on an a …
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Why does it work?
The link between social media and poorer wellbeing is small and the direction of causation is unclear (Orben & Przybylski 2019: at most about 0.4 percent of the variation in young people's wellbeing), but in a three-week experiment, limited use reduced loneliness and low mood (Hunt et al. 2018). Self-compassion has support as a trainable skill (Neff & Germer 2013).
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