{"id":1023,"date":"2018-12-05T13:19:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T13:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2019-01-18T00:51:36","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T00:51:36","slug":"social-media-are-pathological","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2018\/12\/05\/social-media-are-pathological\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media are pathological."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Vaknin analyzes the structure of social media, their uses, and effects. Paradoxically, &#8212; and this applies to the youngest generation, growing up in the age of social media &#8212; the effect of social media is to produce narcissistic, asocial behavior, which in the extreme leads to suicide.<\/p>\n<p>&lt;iframe width=&#8221;560&#8243; height=&#8221;315&#8243; src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dmXcjvL9VSc&#8221; frameborder=&#8221;0&#8243; allow=&#8221;accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture&#8221; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Vaknin analyzes the structure of social media, their uses, and effects. Paradoxically, &#8212; and this applies to the youngest generation, growing up in the age of social media &#8212; the effect of social media is to produce narcissistic, asocial behavior, which in the extreme leads to suicide. &lt;iframe width=&#8221;560&#8243; height=&#8221;315&#8243; src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dmXcjvL9VSc&#8221; frameborder=&#8221;0&#8243; allow=&#8221;accelerometer; autoplay; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2018\/12\/05\/social-media-are-pathological\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Social media are pathological.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bullshit-institutions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1119,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions\/1119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}