After - Social media: loss of empathy, narcissism, and the crescendo of addiction
For my research, I began with finding connections between social media and empathy. The first related article by Berryman, Ferguson, and Negy (2017) argues that the overconsumption of social media does not necessarily affect one's empathic abilities, which was contrasting with my argument. However, as I continue reading it, the key aspect was how one uses social media. For instance, a person can spend over 5 hours a day on social media but the mere exposure time does not imply that it has a negative impact. Quality rather than quantity is superior in this case. Then I found another article about Facebook and its photo feature. This innocent-looking feature might actually be linked to narcissistic behavior since it creates pressure among individuals -especially among females- to create an alluring self-promoting profile with the urge to seek attention from other users (Alloway et al. 2014). Furthermore, a scholar named Konrath did research on students from the time 1979 to 2009, wh