The idea that some older people have of social media has often been that young people share anything and everything online and often find themselves in trouble.
But the truth is, after speaking to college students in this age group and studying the online behaviour, Donna Freitas has found that young adults are actually much more careful and aware of how their image looks to viewers and will spend a lot of time selecting images and text that make them appear perfect and gain likes, stopping them from being themselves and becoming more absorbed into the perfectionist online bubble.
There is an overwhelming pressure to appear overly happy and energetic at all times when it is not always the truth and can often lead to other problems with image, emotion and relationships.
When people start hiding the real person they are and the things they love they distort their self image and their image of other people.
This book talks about the mentality behind this and the way viewers can be blind to the actual issues presented to them on social media. It also talks about how to deal with it.
As a very topical book, this is an important text to have as there are not a lot of titles that go into so much depth about the emotional impact of social media and the perspective of online community relationships.
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