Please help asap read the Social Media summary and then answer the questions:
It seemed that Essena O'Neill had the perfect life. In 2015, the eighteen-year-old Australian model and vegan advocate had over a half million followers on the social media platform Instagram. O'Neill found that she was able to make an income by marketing products to her social media followers, sometimes earning as much as $2,000 for a single post. O'Neill was young and beautiful, and many of her Instagram posts featured images of her smiling
In October 2015, O'Neill publicly disavowed her Instagram persona. She explained that she had spent her teenage years addicted to social media and seeking social approval: "I spent hours watching perfect girls online, wishing I was them. Then I was 'one of them.' I still wasn't happy, content or at peace with myself." O'Neill revealed the lengths to which she would go in order to get the right pose for her next Instagram photo, sometimes sucking in her stomach to appear extremely thin. She would obsessively check the number of "likes" she got on her photos. O'Neill described the insecurity behind her Instagram persona, saying that "I just want young girls to know this isn't candid life, or cool or inspirational. It's contrived perfection made to get attention." There is a growing body of research looking at whether social media is making us unhappy. A recent study found that the more you use Facebook over time, "the more likely you are to expe-nience negative physical health, negative mental health and negative life satisfaction." A 2017 study of eighteen- to twenty-two-year-olds found an association between time spent on social media and "anxiety symptoms and the greater likelihood of an anxiety disorder." Some people believe that quitting social media might also improve your mood
Questions
Does social media give us a distorted view of what constitutes a good life, or what it looks like for someone's life to go well?
Would a hedonist think there is anything wrong with extensively using social media? Why or why not?
3. According to the desire satisfaction theory, is there anything wrong with extensively using social media? Why or why not?
Please help asap read the Social Media summary and then answer the questions:
It seemed that Essena O'Neill had the perfect life. In 2015, the eighteen-year-old Australian model and vegan advocate had over a half million followers on the social media platform Instagram. O'Neill found that she was able to make an income by marketing products to her social media followers, sometimes earning as much as $2,000 for a single post. O'Neill was young and beautiful, and many of her Instagram posts featured images of her smiling
In October 2015, O'Neill publicly disavowed her Instagram persona. She explained that she had spent her teenage years addicted to social media and seeking social approval: "I spent hours watching perfect girls online, wishing I was them. Then I was 'one of them.' I still wasn't happy, content or at peace with myself." O'Neill revealed the lengths to which she would go in order to get the right pose for her next Instagram photo, sometimes sucking in her stomach to appear extremely thin. She would obsessively check the number of "likes" she got on her photos. O'Neill described the insecurity behind her Instagram persona, saying that "I just want young girls to know this isn't candid life, or cool or inspirational. It's contrived perfection made to get attention." There is a growing body of research looking at whether social media is making us unhappy. A recent study found that the more you use Facebook over time, "the more likely you are to expe-nience negative physical health, negative mental health and negative life satisfaction." A 2017 study of eighteen- to twenty-two-year-olds found an association between time spent on social media and "anxiety symptoms and the greater likelihood of an anxiety disorder." Some people believe that quitting social media might also improve your mood
Questions
Does social media give us a distorted view of what constitutes a good life, or what it looks like for someone's life to go well?
Would a hedonist think there is anything wrong with extensively using social media? Why or why not?
3. According to the desire satisfaction theory, is there anything wrong with extensively using social media? Why or why not?
