My family will ask if everything was all right when I lived in South Korea and there were skirmishes with North Korea. But citizens in South Korea were behaving like it had happened — everyone they lived in the US were just panicked by the headlines.
This is another significant reason: most reporting has little effect whatsoever on you. For eg, in another city, a hit-and-running drug ship, a sex scandal, a murder of someone. You have only little mental resources every day; why spend it on unpleasant stuff about which you have no control?
It’s not about ignorance; it’s about understanding that those topics don’t have an impact on your mind.
I decreased the use of social media drastically.
There is a temptation to deepen and dissatisfied with your life in social media. In a recent report, researchers from Canada and Australia stated:
The key conclusion of the post hoc analyzes was that increased social media and TV consumption have over time been correlated with a reduced self-esteem. Considering the upward contrast of social media and TV, the continuous exposure of idealized pictures may be a decline in self-esteem. But according to our findings, the reinforcement spirals only impact depressed symptoms rather than self-esteem, indicating that social media was perceptual and attitude aggravating.
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