Why social networks make us anxious paranoid

Skype, Twitter, VKontakte, phones with GPS support, Instagram, Facebook, Youtube, and thousands of other possibilities - everything it is not without the help of the users themselves, making private information public domain and private life becomes public. On the one hand, no one forces you to lay out something, but the Internet audience makes its own rules, and still the person begins to cover the anxiety and paranoia.

Creating a false picture

Now anyone can upload a photo from your phone to write micro-blog, or video on Youtube, almost all have phones with Internet access, and there - to constantly be in the Internet society, laying out his personal a life.

Almost no one will install the camera at home, so that everything is constantly saw what he was doing and with whom. Instead, human life information flows on the Internet through different sources.

Pieces of information from various social networks - photos from Instagram, Twitter and posts from Facebook, Chekina on Foursquare. From this develops a special image of man, his work and way of life, and often

the sum of these particles acquire a new meaning.

Before the spread of the Internet, people learned of the parties or the relationship through gossip or chat with friends. These kinds of information are not secret, but they were available to all, and rarely recorded. Today, members of the Internet community can use Facebook, to see who was or was not invited, or Chekina Foursquare to find out who is who spends time. Despite the fact that such information creates a strong connection between people, it also increases the gossip, suspicion and uncertainty.

For example, Kate thinks that her boyfriend went to the bar with Masha - a girl, which she does not like. Kate noticed that her boyfriend for a few hours nothing Post to Twitter, and Masha zachekinilas in a bar and tweeted photos of this bar. Kate combines information from two people and interprets it through the prism of his jealousy and suspicion. After that, she will post frazochku the unreliability of people, and it does not mention any of the alleged perpetrators of the post. And some of her entourage could take it personally, and away we go.

opinion of others

All social networks are based on the fact that you not only read, but also trying to post their own information. Community members are constantly watch each other, and carefully build their image on the Internet. Social measures are the number of likes for a photo, the popularity of the profile, the number of friends.

People are constantly exchanging information and see themselves through the prism of other people's opinions, the same likes and comments. They have to adjust their behavior to audience requests, so as not to fall into their eyes. In addition, users do not just want to watch the other people, but also to be seen by them. Therefore it includes granular control over how to edit digital copy of itself in the social network, to achieve the desired effect.

Queries audience are not registered anywhere, and there is no clear indication of what to do to get noticed, and not condemned. There is only constant monitoring of someone else's content, that is, other pages in social networks, and the overall picture, which is born out of this monitoring. So the observation of others, analysis and adjustment to the societal norms becomes an integral part of social life on the Internet.

Man can not be him, he is forced to constantly assess yourself through other people's opinion, meet their expectations, and this creates tension.

Never privacy

In addition to the DC voltage from a sense of surveillance, there are other problems:

1. "Not everyone knows that it is not for Twitter»

This is a problem when some participants in this event have decided to highlight them more than we would like others. It can occur unintentionally, simply because one person event is very personal, for another it may well mean nothing. The same thing often occurs with photos: one opposed to the photo appeared on the network, while others do not see it as anything special.

2. Secret becomes clear

Without direct prompts people to draw conclusions about the relationship of the information available to them. Information from various social networks combined, and her guess that was or will be then.

At that time, each piece of information by itself does nothing, putting them together, we can get enough of the big picture. For example, if you know that Julia was hanging out at a bar one night on Thursday. Bar is publicly available, and it is quite normal that Julia was there, and she told his friends about it, but if it puts this information in the social network, the data may have changed dramatically. For example, if it turns out that the ex-boyfriend of her best friend, too, hanging out at the bar, and this is the third night, when they were both fun in one place, the picture changes.

People love to listen and to go into someone else's life, and tools such as Twitter, Foursquare and Facebook to help them learn enough information about your friends and acquaintances to make a complete picture of their life, whatever it may be and no matter how different from real.

3. What you need to know

People love to gossip and often simply can not stop to watch for someone, even if they know that you can not do that. All of this information and additional meanings that can be found, make people anxious.

Since then, it became possible to block someone's page so as not to see her again, it's a lot We have done, because not everything can be kept not to follow the life of his former, or new rivals Pass.

So, despite the fact that social networks help to be closer to the people we love, to find emotional support and the right information, they also create their own problems and difficulties. Of course, post to Twitter or Instagram - is the choice of each, and of course, you can just do it again. But not everyone can hold that many people notice that without the social networks they feel alienated from modern society, and it has some pressure.

So it should just accept the fact that we live in a world where anyone can attract the attention of millions, and at the same time he does not have to be a politician or celebrity. It is not necessary to condemn or exalt social networks, just need to understand that with the new features they bring new problems.