Why People Quit Their ‘Beautiful’ Social Media Lives
In making her very public break with social media, Instagram model Essena O’Neill wrote that the drive for followers, likes and views “suffocated” her. “I would just spend hours looking at everyone else’s perfect lives,” she wrote, “and I strived to make mine look just as good.” Sounds familiar, right? That’s because it is. O’Neill’s social media use was sort of a heightened version of how most people engage with these platforms; she...
Study: Teens Still Prefer Facebook
New York — Remember those declarations that teens are done with Facebook? Think again. Facebook remains the most used social media site among American teens ages 13 to 17, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center. And, surprisingly, boys visit the site more often than girls. Aided hugely by smartphones and other mobile devices, 71 percent of teens surveyed said they use Facebook, with the same percentage saying they use...
