What will social media look like in the 2020s?
published by Elsevier similarly linked increased screen time with depression, with the authors commenting that the data represented “a significant public health concern”. 61 per cent of girls aged 11 to 21 in the UK said they felt they needed to look “perfect” . However, these kinds of studies tend to tell us what we already know, having experienced it first-hand for years ourselves.
Remember that feeling called boredom? When you had to stand in a queue or sit in the waiting room at the dentist. The feeling that only really happens now when your phone has run out of battery and there’s no charger nearby. More commonly known as panic., which is less than a goldfish. Notifications, infinite scroll, autoplay and attractive, brightly coloured app design have seriously impacted our ability to focus.
“There is evidence that just having a smartphone nearby makes it hard to focus, even when you're not actively using your phone,” says Erin Vogel, a social psychologist based in San Francisco.As former Google design ethicist and Silicon Valley rebel Tristan Harris explains in his TED talk ‘How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day’, social media was designed using persuasive psychology to keep us coming back for more.
“My attention span is shot,” says social media specialist Natasha Slee, who leads social strategy and content creation for media brands. “That Douglas Coupland poster ‘I miss my pre-internet brain’ resonated with me so much. I miss what I did in gaps of time before the reflex action to pick up my phone and scroll. Passively consuming content on our phones takes away from time that could be spent soaking in our surroundings and communicating with each other IRL.
, advertising them to our peers on social media in a way that would have seemed very unnatural to previous generations. “Instagram has shaped us into mini brands and visual diarists of our own lives,” comments Slee.This act of seeing ourselves as others would see us, and judging ourselves as others would judge us, is known as self-objectification.
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