Comparison Culture
Social media highlights the best moments of others' lives, fueling unrealistic comparisons and feelings of inadequacy or failure.
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In an age of likes, shares, and curated lives, social media increasingly shapes how individuals perceive their value, blurring the line between genuine self-worth and digital validation.
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Social media may hurt your self-esteem
Social media can cause you to experience feelings of inadequacy. about your life and your appearance.
Even if you know that the images you see online are manipulated or represent someone else's highlight reel, they can still cause feelings of insecurity, envy, and dissatisfaction.
Social Comparisons
A social comparison happens when we are measuring ourselves by the success or the failures of others. We all use social comparisons to motivate ourselves.
- Upward comparisons make us dissatisfied, as we line up ourselves with someone better than us.
Making unfair comparisons
There are advantages to social comparisons, like ensuring that we are reaching certain developmental milestones. But unfair comparisons can cause you to feel inadequate and incompetent.
Online social networks provide a platform for social comparisons. It is important to question the purpos...
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