From Diary to Social Media
Breakpoint
Colson Center
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2024
⏱️ 1 minutes
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Summary
Mental processing on TikTok is performative, not healthy.
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| 0:00.0 | With the one minute look at culture from a Christian worldview I'm John Stone Street with the point and a video for the identity project Dr |
| 0:06.5 | Leonard Sachs noted that 20 years ago most young girls had a diary in which to write |
| 0:10.8 | privately about their journey to discover who they are and what they want. |
| 0:14.0 | That kind of introspection was healthy and helpful. But today too much mental processing is done on |
| 0:19.1 | Tik-Tok and Instagram. It's not private, it's performative. Think of the teenage girl who takes 100 selfies and chooses two or three to offer a social media audience after carefully touching them up. |
| 0:30.0 | That's not healthy. |
| 0:31.0 | As Dr. Sachs put it, the difference between the diary and the social media is the difference |
| 0:34.7 | between living and performing. The constant striving for approval, which rarely comes from a |
| 0:39.2 | disembodied online crowd also trying to perform and who at times hurt others and |
| 0:43.8 | flicks long-term damage on the mental and emotional well-being of young girls. |
| 0:47.4 | That's why when it comes to teens and social media the right call is just to say |
| 0:50.9 | no. Go to identity project. TV to hear Dr. Sacks. |
| 0:54.4 | That's identity project. TV. |
| 0:56.6 | I'm John Stone Street. |
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