Dear readers, in this issue, we will talk about the use of smart technological devices that have taken over all of our lives. At the beginning of the article, I would like you to think about a few issues.
Do you know your own frequency of technological device use? Do you think it has taken over you?
How do you evaluate the other individuals around you in this sense?
When I asked myself these two questions, I was completely horrified. I can say that I'm getting carried away.
In this issue of our magazine, we had an interview with our editors about "FOMO". I recommend you read it too. I think we need to be aware that, if not all of us, perhaps the majority of us have the fear of constantly checking the "virtual" world we belong to and the fear of missing out. I emphasized this point often, especially in the interview. I think the reason why I put the phrase "virtual" in quotation marks is that these channels are no longer virtual. They also became a part of real life. What do you think?
If we look at how many years they have been in our lives in total, we will see that they haven't been around for very long. There must be so many things attracting us there that we find it natural that it creates such an impact in a short time. I am trying to emphasize an important element that attracts attention from the title of the article. We all have self types that we examine in two sub-dimensions: real self and ideal self. If we examine the subject of self in psychology, it is of course possible to see different approaches. But in this article, I will discuss two types of issues in order to explain the frequency of our use of social media and the internet.
The real self is the type that includes the value we are in now and the value we give to ourselves. The ideal self is the self-perception we want to achieve in the future. While explaining this subject during my university years, our teacher said the following: It completely matches our topic. “The clearer the difference between these two selves in a person, the more disconnected they are, the more distant they are from each other, the more likely it is that psychological and physiological disorders will come into play.”
As we can all guess, we mostly reflect our ideal selves on our social media accounts. There we have no sorrows, no regrets There is no z, we have no natural states, what is there? Mostly, there are our happiness, the aspects of our private life that we think will look the most beautiful, and details that we want others to see that may not concern anyone but us.
The risk here is how and to what extent do the lives we reflect there, the likes we receive, and the fact that we think we need to reflect things to others affect our real life? If we reflect a self that is quite different from ourselves and our reality and hold on tightly to it, depressive symptoms will await us.
At the end of my article, I will give you 1 suggestion to prevent social media from affecting our lives so negatively. Research shows that receiving praise, likes, appreciation and approval on social media causes us to connect more or have difficulty disconnecting. Therefore, if we can meet these needs in other areas of our lives, our interest in the internet world will not be intense. Having hobbies, skills, and different things we can achieve will positively affect usage. Of course, I would like to end my article by saying that in the age we live in, "0" use, that is, not using it at all, does not seem possible.
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