Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life - Hardcover

Ormerod, Katherine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1788400623 ISBN 13: 9781788400626

Publisher: Cassell, 2018

Synopsis

Do you ever obsess about your body? Do you lie awake at night, fretting about the state of your career?

Does everyone else's life seem better than yours? Does it feel as if you'll never be good enough?

Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life tackles head on the pressure cooker of comparison and unreachable levels of perfection that social media has created in our modern world.

In this book, Katherine Ormerod meets the experts involved in curating, building and combating the most addictive digital force humankind has ever created. From global influencers - who collectively have over 10 million followers - to clinical psychologists, plastic surgeons and professors, Katherine uncovers how our relationship with social media has rewired our behavioural patterns, destroyed our confidence and shattered our attention spans.

Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life is a rallying cry that will provide you with the knowledge, tactics and weaponry you need to find a more healthy way to consume social media and reclaim your happiness.

Reviews for Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life:

'This book is a call to arms from the eye of the storm'
- Emma Gannon, author of The Multi-Hyphen Method

'Enter Ormerod's vital manual, which will help you navigate social media and turn it not into a weapon, but a useful tool'
- Pandora Sykes

About this title

Review

'It will come as no surprise that social media and the inclination to compare our lives' to others is having a malign effect on humans. But it might be slightly more alarming to discover that it's not just bringing us down but rewiring our behavioural patterns. Read this book and then carve out some for room yourself and your brain. ' - Emerald Street (Emerald Street)

'Katherine Ormerod investigates the worst aspects of being constantly connected and how to offset the negative impact on your life.' Mail online, Femail (Mail Online)

'Omerod's well-researched book is packed full of wisdom that will not only make you feel less alone in your worries, it offers advice and tips to help you armour up against the all-consuming force that is social media.' - Mashable (Mashable)

'Reading that I'm not alone in feeling like my Instagram persona is having a prettier happier, more successful twin sister is reassuring. Having the tools to do something about that feeling? Even better.' - Mashable (Mashable)

Book Description

A no-holds-barred, no-filter look at what social media is doing to us as a society, and how we can deconstruct the online fantasy to change our own attitudes about modern womanhood.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cassell
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1788400623
• ISBN 13: 9781788400626
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256