Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life

story entitled “The Goddess Myth”, most of the women surveyed said a natural birth was extremely or very important, yet 43 per cent ended up needing drugs or an epidural, and 22 per cent had unplanned C-sections. Is it any wonder they might feel as if they’d failed?

While we like to preach the idea that you can “be anything you want to be” in our real lives, the truth is that there is a social stigma attached to self-invention as if it’s a con.

It’s a space where, day to day, you could imagine that all reasonable people agree with you, or at least understand where you’re coming from.

six in ten girls now say they feel prettier online than they do offline.

Psychologists now refer to two types of attention: spotlight and floodlight. When we are focused on a single task, we use our spotlight brain to centre all of our efforts on its completion. But when we split our concentration between several tasks, we employ a floodlight approach, where we work on more than one thing at a time.

The hypocrisy is stunning – all sorts of sexually charged images of girls in bikinis revealing their derrieres and hoicked-up cleavages are fine, but a woman feeding her child in the most nonsexual setting possible is somehow unacceptable.

Women on Instagram that you don’t know aren’t any different from a stranger on the street. She may have had a stillbirth. She may have spent $100,000 on fertility treatment to get her child. She may have had an egg donor. We don’t know anything. When we see these images on social media, it tends to stir feelings that everybody else’s life is perfec

There’s no doubt that these images shape how others believe life should, or at least could, look like.

It’s so easy to think, ‘she’s glowing’, or ‘she obviously got pregnant on her first try’. We can very quickly persuade ourselves that she never struggled.