Am I Heading For A Divorce with Social Media?
What About My 164 “friends”?
I would like to focus on my relationship with social media during this session, Dr. Sigmund.
Dr S: Certainly. Make yourself comfortable.
Well, I guess I’d like to start off by saying that I am quite aware that we each have very individual relationships with all the various bizarre permutations of social media in which we partake. I’d like to examine my perspectives with you, as well as examine probable misconceptions.
Dr S: It is indeed true that each of us brings our own set of needs to that realm. From where I sit I see everything from what you might call a dating relationship to something akin to a co-dependent marriage. People approach and utilize it with very different motivations. They also ride it regularly in very different moods and surroundings, and more and more often in the realm of the much shorter attention span provided by the cell phone.
I’d particularly like to focus on Facebook. I have 164 “friends” — pretty much a mix of people I’ve known for years or at least met physically on some occasion. Two of them are dead. I had over 200 when…
