For months I've been toying with the idea of ridding my use of social media, but for some reason I could never bring myself to do so. I thought that this year I would give it up for Lent, but as my friend said today, "you should give it up when you're ready." And I'm ready. In today's day and age, my generation is so caught up in social media it's unhealthy. Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, VSCO, Facebook, Tumblr, etc. have taken over our lives. We spend hours on end each day scrolling through feeds, comparing ourselves to others, trying to make our lives look perfect. Social media has created a world in which we seek each others approval and try to fit into a mold that we've created. Although there are positive aspects of social media, personally, the negatives tend to outweigh those. Scrolling through Instagram I see pictures of beauty and fitness gurus, celebrities, and even my friends who post "perfect" pictures that get hundred or thous...
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