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Foad Nahai, The Stress Factor of Social Media, Aesthetic Surgery Journal, Volume 38, Issue 6, June 2018, Pages 689–691, https://doi.org/10.1093/asj/sjy002
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As if we didn’t have enough cause for stress in our busy, complicated lives, along comes social media. What started out, theoretically, as a novel way to “connect” people on a wide scale has now been implicated in social anxiety disorder, which is the third leading psychological disorder in the United States,1 as well as in other forms of stress. Granted, the cry against the stress-producing impact of technology is nothing new. Similar claims of deleterious psychological effects have been made against technological advances such as trains, telephones, radio, television, and industrial machinery.2 As we have somehow survived the assaults on our psyches perpetrated by these essential inventions, presumably we will survive social media as well. However, social media can be addictive and its effects are often insidious. All of which suggests that we need to be attentive not only to our own use of social media but to the impact of social media on our patients.
