With the Social Media Disorder Scale, when considering the relationship between the usage of social media, and myself, I found that I did not really relate to some of the more common instances of social media use, that could maybe be experienced by most. In my case, I haven’t found myself regularly using social media, or feeling a need to use social media for an extremely long period of time, or at least if I have, it has not been so much so to the point to where in which it could cause conflict with my parents, and or friends. With this, I can maybe say that I have gone on social media when having negative feelings to maybe clear my mind, but aside from this, I did not see much relation, as it pertains to my usage of social media, to that of most. And beyond this, as for why the patterns that some may follow may be different, I think part of this, can lie in the fact that everyone has different experiences to some degree within life, and different interests as well, which can cause people to gravitate toward things one way or another, whether that is more so toward social media and away from other people, or not.
May 07