According to the UN World Happiness Report, happiness in the United States has dipped in recent years.
Social media tends to drain joy from teenagers and adults, both by stoking anxieties about the “better” lives others seem to be leading online and by robbing time we should be spending interacting with others in the real world.In March, the UN World Happiness Report set the tone on comprehending our plight, showing, through a complex formula, how happiness in the United States has dipped in recent years.
One of the traits that hurts Americans most is their quest for more money when they already have enough, said Jacksonville, Florida, psychologist Gary Buffone. “My house is a mess, I can’t keep up with what needs to be done, but I’ve always been upbeat, and I try to do the best I can with what I have,” she said. “I’ll get depressed sometimes, but I keep on truckin’.”
“They set us up for the worst humanity has to offer,” she said. “And Facebook has this feedback loop that plays the horrible things in the world, and it circles and circles among us. We’re overconsuming this content that drives down our happiness.”On average, 12th graders in the US spent six hours a day online in 2017, according to the UN report. This meant spending less time interacting with friends, socialising, going to parties, and even sleeping.
She speaks of a friend who was the victim of “horrible” false stories told about her online by former friends. When the girl responded online by saying, “I thought we’d be friends forever,” her tormentors retorted, “Stop talking to us, clown trash.” The girl cried.
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