Monthly Archive: August 2018

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How Social Media Can Decrease Happiness – Part 2: Smelling the Roses

This is Part 2 in the series about the specific ways in which our social media use can decrease happiness.  You can find Part 1 here, addressing how social networks lead us to turn ourselves into a product and how that can negatively affect our mental health. Post 2: Skimming Instead of Reading, Scrolling Instead of Seeing Another way that intense use of social media can negatively affect our happiness and life satisfaction is because...