Don’t dissolve in social networks!
Social networks are a need in the modern world, but only for us to decide what role they will play in our life and how exactly to use them: as a means of self-expression, the realization of the need to […]
Ways to prevent social media addiction in teens
Growing up with social media certainly has its benefits. When used in moderation, social media can help children and teens make friends, maintain relationships, and even achieve better education outcomes.
The Issues of Identity and Self-Representation Online
There is no disputing that social media has had a growing importance in our lives for the last decade or so, in fact, one can argue that various social media platforms have transcended and reshaped their prior functions as tools […]
Rekindling in the post pandemic era
The Covid-19 outbreak marked a new chapter in all aspects of our life, especially in social connections. And with the advent of vaccines, the situation seems to brighten up a bit. Once we get shots, we can gradually restore our […]
How social media affects a person’s self-esteem
Social media have long been platforms for self-expression and professional fulfilment. No wonder social media and self-esteem become interconnected. New acquaintances, interest groups, unhindered display of personal preferences, rebuilding lost connections or breaking up unwanted relationships, etc. Social networks create […]
How does social media affect urban youth?
Few things in recent memory have changed the world so profoundly as the internet. We live, learn, and socialize differently today from how our parents and grandparents did, thanks to the world wide web. And with the internet came the rise of social media in the early to mid-2000s. This means that my generation – the infamous millennials – and all those that come after us are growing up online.
How to maintain long-distance friendship?
Long-distance friendships have already become a usual part of our hectic life. I am sure all of us have that one friend who left to study abroad, or who moved to another country. Besides, the lockdown restrictions prevented us from […]
How The Pandemic Redefined Our Relationship With Social Media
With COVID-19 came a new normal, one where most of our daily interactions slowly went from having face-to-face contact as a logical (and at times much necessary) prerequisite to largely being mediated by screens. Platforms, both new and old, became […]
Three types of friendship everyone must know about
What kind of a friend are you? Have you always had different friend groups? Or collections of solo friendships? Or one united wolfpack? According to a 2016 study from Dartmouth University, most people’s friendships fall into one of those three […]
How many friends do you have?
Hardly anyone can imagine their online life without constant correspondence with hundreds of barely familiar people who the social network suggests calling “friends”. But how often is a friend or follower actually really close to us? Can we call all […]