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Post by Ray Hall on Aug 4, 2017 9:55:47 GMT -4
Tweeter causes people stress for a couple of reasons. First there is the fact that on social media you tend to only see to best things that happen or the best of a thousand pictures. There was a time when all you had from you trip was the film you got developed once you got back. Now you can take a million pictures and keep the good ones. You couple that with the use or filters and photo shop it gives people an unrealistic idea of what life is supposed to be. The second issue is the idea that it increases communication and the use of notifications. Research has shown that notifications can release the same chemicals in the brain as gambling or drugs. This coupled with the fact that you now can technically reach anyone in the world make it even more stressful when you don't received responses or messages.
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Post by Nora Gyampoh on Aug 9, 2017 20:07:27 GMT -4
This article discusses how twitter fuels anxiety in people whether acutely or chronically and the impact it can have on one’s daily functioning. However, I will say that social media in general has become the platform on which people feel that they can freely express their thought become most at time, there is not repercussion and so with that, the level of anxiety of the user can become persistent. Twitter or other social media can positively affect a person’s lifestyle; for instance, there are lot of people of YouTube who are progressing in life and not doing the “9-to-5” jobs because they tapped into the world of social media and how it benefits them and the displace of their wealth through purchasing of houses at younger age or doing progressing in live can either contribute to the level of anxiety of a person. The reason being that twitter and other social media do not clearly present the intricate details about a person and the hurdles they go through to attain such success and so with just some glimpse or some minutes about a person’s lifestyle erupts us to question our life choices and what we have and have not accomplished at a stage in our life. So, to conclude, twitter does fuel anxiety because it causes self-doubts, insecurities and most at times, the failures in one’s life.
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Post by Suraka Aminu Yahaya on Aug 16, 2017 13:01:35 GMT -4
slowly but surely, twitter is slowly over-shadowing Facebook and the likes of other social media. to me twitter is now like a discussion or conference room where people from different part and continents of the world, regardless of religion, ethnicity, race and skin color come together to pour of their feelings, thoughts, opinion and facts, some good while some terrible and sad. and its a center where you get all the updates and news at a finger snap, from when its starting to when its finishing and evening conclusions. twitter doesn't only fuel anxiety but it also fuels tension and fire, for example; sometimes you go on twitter and see heads of states and other dignitaries exchanging words and other sensible issues on twitter instead of a closed door meetings. nevertheless, twitter is a very nice platform to interact with people and have fun.
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Post by Aminah Phelps on Aug 17, 2017 15:05:29 GMT -4
I thought the article- How twitter fuels anxiety was really interesting. I totally agree with the author's perspective on the article. Anxiety is that constant worry about many different things. The access to Twitter allows people to heighten their interest in others, which sometimes makes people take a hard look at their lives and the anxiety starts. I feel as if all social media is harmful to the psyche. We as people always want to strive to look our best and do our best and even feel our best. When we get sucked into the lives of others, we can start to idealize things, people, etc. and in turn anxiety and depression and even psychotic episdoses can all be seen. Twitter is that constant desire to know what someone is doing all the time. People should think about all the things they can do instead of being on twitter 100 times a day, and they would be amazed at the level of productivity that they are able to accomplish.
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Post by Saurav Randhawa on Aug 20, 2017 13:53:46 GMT -4
The author of the article examines how twitter and social media in general makes anxiety worse. People who are already suffering from anxiety can find camaraderie in relating to others who also suffer from it. This helps to control some of their anxiety for a time, but there is so many other kinds of people posting on twitter, that the users who began to have less anxiety are now comparing their life stages to those of other people. This along with the constant need for checking how many likes they got or who retweeted them is actually making them have higher levels of anxiety than they were before. Social media is a great tool that can be used to educate the masses or share important personal life events, but it should only be looked at as such and not as something to constantly check up on to "hack" your brains reward system.
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Post by Thashi Moksha on Aug 22, 2017 8:02:59 GMT -4
No doubt the social media platforms such as Twitter have it's numerous benefits but simultaneously they do carry a negative effect because they can exacerbate unnecessary anxiety. Loneliness in the young is largely a function of perceived friendship networks. The relatively modern phenomenon of social media and its associated technology adds a new dimension to loneliness and anxiety by offering the young person a way of directly quantifying friendships, viewing the friendship networks of others for comparison, and providing immediate information about social events. Comparing your own popularity with that of your peers, and managing that adolescent ‘fear of missing out’ by continually monitoring what’s going on socially can definitely induce some sort of anxiety unknowingly. Its obvious that technology use took the place of more traditional social interaction and it provides a yardstick for one’s popularity or more significantly, one’s feelings of loneliness and alienation in some cases. As Facebook and Twitter are a significant contributors to the friendship networks of young people , Whether you perceive yourself to be a successful user on these social websites is more than likely to have an impact on feelings of loneliness, anxiety, paranoia, and mental health generally.
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Post by Shahzail Qureshi on Aug 30, 2017 10:29:38 GMT -4
How Twitter Fuels Anxiety.
Social media has always been powerful and now more than ever where people use Twitter to connect with their families and friends. It's the most convenient way to find out what's going on around the world. Whether it's news, sports, celebrities, and checking up on family and friends. This article talks about how twitter exacerbate anxiety in some people. Twitter is used for many different reasonings, one being "sharing your feelings on social media," where people can come and comment at any time and some people can't handle the pressure and it starts affecting them and they can't handle it. I think for many people it is an outlet to get out your feelings, thoughts and emotions. If twitter is being used for a purpose, then it's less likely to evoke anxiety, but as soon as you search around, passively moving from post to post, reading what others have to say and share, that is when twitter can be destructive and cause anxiety in people. Twitter also has a positive side to itself where it helps people who have social anxiety and for them this is the best way to connect with people and overcome their anxiety. Overall, people who have anxiety should avoid going on twitter or limit themselves. It could affect them in many ways, such as when someone left a "bad comment" on there post or how come I don't have many followers like other people or why didn't I get more likes for this post and so on. Social media is one of the best advancement of our time but for many people it's a disaster.
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Post by listowell on Aug 31, 2017 11:58:03 GMT -4
This is very interesting. I am not a fan of twitter, never been there, however reading this article gives me some sense of curiosity. The question that lingers in my mind is “could what I have been hearing be true? This article some way somehow answers the fact that twitter may be the preeminence of social indulgence, i.e. socio-media addiction.
I will respond from an addiction point of view why twitter, being a good master in controlling anxiety, can be a bad leader in incrementally exacerbating anxious behavior. The engagement in social media such as featured in this week’s discussion creates an additive effect in making individuals euphoric, eye opener, and unconscious seeking. This, in my opinion, made the writer, even though felt taunted by her husband initially, gradually became a disciple of twitter.
As medical professionals, we understand the nitty-gritty of addiction, however, there is a basic relation to anxiety that easily skips our attention. During addiction, we understand that dopamine is the main player. In addition to dopamine, it has been researched that norepinephrine plays an augmenting effect on the dopaminergic pathway (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2657197/) in sensitizing the individual to do what they love to do. Ah! So it becomes clear why anxiety may be a culprit to socio-media-addictions’-anxiety-exacerbating effect. Yes, norepinephrine has a lukewarm mechanism in that it can also alleviate anxiety, such function is dependent on other mechanisms. Good article to read.
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Post by Raza Kazmi on Sept 4, 2017 20:43:54 GMT -4
I think the article points out a great aspect about Twitter and how it can trigger anxiety. There's different types of anxieties, as the article demonstrates, particularly trait and state anxiety, that are the most distinguishable. In terms of trait anxiety, I feel like managing patients may be more along the lines of limiting the use of all social media. Social media is a place where all the things happening in the world come to your door. So someone with trait anxiety is bringing up the opportunity to for a stressor to easily occupy their mind, regardless or not if it is tangibly in the room. Avoiding social media, when appropriate, can possibly help people suffering from trait anxiety. As for state anxiety, which is imposed by an external stressor, causing fear, Twitter is just bringing the world to your door. There's going to be things out there that trigger anxiety, and when you create platforms that bring everything to you, there's a good chance some of those things are going to trigger anxiety. In my opinion, we should be managing our interactions on the social media platforms we criticize. After all, we make our own decisions.
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Post by Sherjeel Yaqoob on Sept 4, 2017 20:50:17 GMT -4
The reason people are drawn to twitter is because it gives a deeper insight of how others people live their lives that would not be possible before. This in turn start to develop fears of not feeling accomplished, smart, or beautiful as the people they are following. Its when they envy begins to develops does a person anxiety rises. On the other hand twitter can help people with anxiety by giving them a international support group of people who are in the situation. Overall twitter can be a tool to learn to grow if done in moderation and understanding a other people's accomplishments should not make one feeling less accomplishment
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Post by Sagar Vinayak on Sept 8, 2017 15:02:13 GMT -4
This article demonstrates how twitter and anxiety are closely related. They are closely related due to the fact that on social media one can openly express his feelings while someone who suffers from anxiety reading that may start to develop symptoms of anxiety. Social media is bringing the world closer to your doorstep by having easy access to everything that is going on in the world all at the disposal of your cellular device or tablet. If someone on one side of the country is talking about a bad experience and someone diagnosed with anxiety starts to read it may end up causing them to flare up their anxiety. Twitter is unable to monitor every single account that may be tweeting negative thoughts and because of that it makes it a hazardous environment for people with anxiety to cope with. Overall someone with anxiety reading tweets on the timeline may be at risk for having a anxiety flare up.
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