The Impact Of Social Media On The Identity Crisis
The self on social networks is far from being as simple as false. People's "self" on social networks is self-evolving and haseven squeezed the real space you can exist. Psychologists have long studied the concepts of "real self" and "false self" (alsoknown as "shadow self"). For example, Carl Jung introduced the concept of "personality shadows". He believes that"shadow" is the dark side of our unknown, composed of primitive, negative, socially degraded emotions (such as sexualdesire, desire for power, selfishness, greed, jealousy, jealousy and anger). Although the shadow symbolises everything wefear and thus makes us refuse to recognise its existence, it is always part of our personality. Jung believes that unless wecan accept our own shadows, we are destined to become victims of it unintentionally.
Similarly, another psychologist, Erik Erikson, introduced the concept of the identity crisis. Like Jung, Eriksson believes thatthe process of identity formation involves a dark and negative side. Some of our features, while attractive, are disturbingand therefore tend to be hidden. In the process of adulthood, we not only internalise what is considered acceptable butalso internalise the attitudes of parents and society towards bad traits and personality, although the latter only works inthe subconscious. For most people, these "bad" things have become "forbidden": although harmful, we are still attractedto it. To truly reinstate ourselves, we must incorporate these “forbidden fruits” into our sense of identity.
Nowadays, people are slowly losing some basic communication skills. Many people prefer to use text messages and emailsto communicate. Because they can't edit the words, they say when they talk face to face, they can't show what I want toshow. One side". The fragmented communication of text messages and emails, although carefully edited, has lost theability to use conversation to understand each other truly. Socialization has become a part of our lives. As a medium of strong social attributes, it is almost impossible for us toabandon our circle of friends completely. However, you can't get all the information from your circle of friends, you can'tkeep up with all the trends, you can't say goodbye to loneliness, and you can't become the one who is dressed up. Perhaps it's essential that we can be content with what we have in the real world – the day we can do it is the beginning of beinggenuinely uncontrolled by the virtual world. It is tough to be true to yourself. It is even harder to watch under the eyes of everyone (also if it is imaginary).
On social networks, we can enjoy the space that it has to divide from the real world, but I hope that you can retain the wisdom ofdiscerning your wisdom and not inciting others. You can choose to do some tricky things, but you must know what you are doing. Only then will you not be separated fromyour existence and fall into the abyss of emptiness and self-loathing.
