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Study Guide, Reflection & Vocabulary for  Does Social Media Make People Sadder? (and excerpts)

Here is the link to the article, study guide and answer key. Feel free to download and use with your students. Does Social Media Make Article Exercises AK

Excerpts

¹³ Barzilay wanted to explore the relationship between how much time we spend on social media and how happy we are.  Many studies have shown that people who often use social media seem to be less happy than those who don’t.  However, the researchers wondered about two possible reasons for this.  One would be a correlation.   Are lonely people using social media to escape from their lonely or unhappy lives?  The other would be cause:  Is social media causing people to feel unhappy?

¹⁸ There is a fear that others are having better lives than we have.  There is another type of fear closely connected to social media.  It’s called FOMO (fear of missing out).  This can happen when we look at photos and descriptions of our friends’ experiences on social media of events that we did not attend.  This can cause us to be less happy at the present moment even if we ourselves had been having an enjoyable experience.

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Onward!

David Kehe

*About the free-download materials. During my 40 years of teaching ESL, I have had many colleagues who were very generous with their time, advice and materials. These downloads are my way of paying it forward.