“I wake up staring at my phone. I fall asleep to the glow of the very same screen. I think about whether leaving social media would make any difference. It probably won’t, and yet I can’t bear to look away.”
Author Michael Seidlinger contemplates our societal fascination with social media in a new Buzzfeed piece titled, “Every Day I Want to Quit Social Media.”
Seidlinger delves into the vulnerability of social media users, describing the feeling of seeing a post flop, watching a friend’s post be inundated with attention, and the compulsion to scroll, to catch up.
But then, the saving grace of social media appears– a human connection. Among the posturing and one-upping, it’s easy to forget that social media was invented to bring people closer together, not to isolate.
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