Social media has psychological side effects. Paradoxically, hyperconnectivity may create feelings of disconnection—not only between us and others, but within ourselves. In Mind Change, clinical psychologist Larry Rosen points out that a “dangerous gap could grow between this idealized ‘front stage’ you and the real ‘backstage’ you, leading to a feeling of disconnection and isolation.” Social media doesn’t represent the first chance we’ve had to “distort” our identity, but it is the first that allows us to do so in such volume, and with such accessibility. Many celebrities have long felt the
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