Has Social Media Destroyed a Generation?
<p>An ominous billboard grabbed my attention during my morning walk, a difficult feat to achieve at 6 a.m., slightly hungover. In elegant white letters it proclaimed:</p>
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<p>“I Saw The Best Minds of My Generation Destroyed By Social Media.”</p>
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<p>Hm. Not an original thought — <a href="https://www.azquotes.com/quote/110807" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">it’s been around for a while</a> — but that didn’t stop me from thinking about how true the statement is.</p>
<p>Two seconds later, this pair of New York City fashionistas asked me if I could take a picture of them in front of it, presumably to post on Instagram. Hm. What’s happening today? Are the 7 hours and 4 minutes the average American spends glued to screens daily a disaster in the making?</p>
<p>Has social media destroyed my generation?</p>
<p>I think there are three overwhelming arguments in favor of this question.</p>
<h1>“Burn-Out Syndrome”</h1>
<p>Modern people are constantly bombarded with information.</p>
<p>It’s to the point that you don’t even get time to think anymore.</p>
<p>How could you not get exhausted?</p>
<p>With telephones, emails, messages, Instagram, Myspace, you’re always solicited and it’s tough to escape that socially. People are disappointed in you if you can’t be joined at the hip. Not just socially speaking, but professionally, where your job can solicit you at anytime and you can’t refuse to reply because you’ll be fired.</p>
<p>According to Microsoft’s most recent Work Trend Index, nearly <a href="https://hbr.org/2023/05/more-than-50-of-managers-feel-burned-out#:~:text=According%20to%20Microsoft's%20most%20recent,higher%20than%20employees%20in%20general." rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">50%</a> of employees and over half of managers are experiencing burnout.</p>
<p>You don’t have time anymore for yourself. Even on holidays, your friends, families, social circle expect you to be wired in, and ready to digitally dance at a moment’s notice.</p>
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