How To Engage In Social Media While Protecting Your Mental Health
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Julia Austin
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Don’t accidentally multi-task
You’re sitting in the waiting room of your doctor’s office. You’re standing in line at the grocery store. You’re sitting in the back of an Uber. You’re waiting for something to be finished in the oven. What do you do? You open social media. It’s a way to “pass the time.” But we often don’t realize that there’s nothing passive about looking at social media. It can actually cause us a lot of stress and show us content that puts us in a rage, makes us feel we have to do something about an issue, or in some way calls us to action. It’s not simple entertainment, which is why Matthews suggests we, “Limit where you use social media. Social media can be exhausting and tiresome and distract from things that are important.”
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