The only time social media makes me happier and less anxious is when I'm creating, not consuming. I've consumed digital media and social media for majority of my life as I grew up as 56k(dial-up) & cable became mainstream as I approached teens.
It makes me sad to reflect upon my life mostly being a comparison to different images online of how others live their often "fictional" lives and how mimetic desire had me wanting what they have although it didn't actually make me "happier" when I did in fact obtain those things in life.
I think this problem is a very personal one. I think everyone has a love/hate relationship with social media and only you know how to find the balance that is "just right" for you. While I am grateful for my generation to have not had such an attachment to technology and devices (i'm only 30), I do hope that the newer generations can find peace with the similar challenges of being addicted to digital media/social media/the internet from an early age into adulthood.
It makes me sad to reflect upon my life mostly being a comparison to different images online of how others live their often "fictional" lives and how mimetic desire had me wanting what they have although it didn't actually make me "happier" when I did in fact obtain those things in life.
I think this problem is a very personal one. I think everyone has a love/hate relationship with social media and only you know how to find the balance that is "just right" for you. While I am grateful for my generation to have not had such an attachment to technology and devices (i'm only 30), I do hope that the newer generations can find peace with the similar challenges of being addicted to digital media/social media/the internet from an early age into adulthood.