Week 9 – Journal Entry

Upon completing the social media disorder scale, my score did not meet the 5 out of 9 to meet the formal diagnosis of “disordered social media user”. The only questions to which I responded yes was question number 8 “often used social media to escape from negative feelings?” and number 4 “tried to spend less time on social media, but failed?” I feel that these were great questions to be able to find out alot about a person and if they do have a social media disorder. For me personally, I would feel ashamed and be seeking desperate help if I did meet the criteria because having an addiction to social media that severe to the point where it is causing a disturbance in your personal life is a very terrible issue. I feel that there are many different patterns across the world because with different people come different personalities and amongst thos personalities are people who have social media on the top of their list of concerns when that should never be the case. I fell that social media is a place where people post the parts of their lives that they want other people to see when in reality they may be going through the same real life issues as the next person.