Your Social Life Is Not Your Social Media By Peggy Drexler Ph. D.
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The article “Your Social Life Is Not Your Social Media” by Peggy Drexler Ph.D. discusses how individuals use social media to measure how their friends and acquaintances feel about them with the number of likes on a post and follow backs. Drexler also shares the effects of social media has on friendship by sharing experiences of a thirty-year-old real estate agent name Jessie and man name Ben. Social media makes friendships become about scorekeeping. A well-known social media app is Snapchat. Many individuals use Snapchat for streaks. Streaks are the number of days a person will send a photo or video to his or her friend. A family member name Barbie was worried about the number days of streaks she had between her friends. She feared that