This document discusses how social media is negatively impacting people's quality of life in three ways: 1) by making people antisocial offline as they are constantly online, 2) by exposing people to curated highlights of others' lives which increases feelings of envy and unhappiness, and 3) by causing distraction from the present moment as people feel compelled to check their devices frequently. The document argues that these effects are leading to lower quality social interactions, impaired well-being, and an inability to fully experience life offline in the real world.

1. Social Media,
Or Antisocial
Media?
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Social media is
-DESTROYING-
our quality of life
in 3 ways:

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By being
SOCIAL
online
We are becoming
ANTISOCIAL
offline
(Kirk, 2014)

10. 3 out of 4 people
admit to being
“rude or
disconnected
from others”
whilst on
their phones
(vital smarts, 2013
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With less face-to-face
interaction comes…
“lower quality social interactions”
“impaired psychosocial functioning”
“isolation and loneliness”
(Becker, Alzahabi, & Hopwood, 2013)

12. We are losing our ability to BE HUMAN
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13. TWO
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Seeing others
constantly
HAPPY
makes us
constantly
UNHAPPY
(Kirk, 2014)

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“The social media
obsession is
correlated with
higher levels of
unhappiness”(Zabell, n.d.)

15. “
“Facebook based on
surveillance of other
people leads to
envy”
(Newsy Tech, 2015)
“and envy can
be a great risk for
depression”
(Newsy Tech, 2015)
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16. We are losing our ability to BE HAPPY
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17. THREE
We are
becoming
DISTRACTED
from the
present
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18. “Family
members
will…text…
when they
are all in
the same
room”
(Bielski, 2013).
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19. Humans spend their lives
“twitching to
get back to
their gadgets”
(Bielski, 2013).
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20. We are losing our ability to EXPERIENCE
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21. But what can we do?

22. We need to stop reading others’ stories
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And start writing our own…

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