My Generation Is Addicted to Social Media

I’m not addicted to social media, but I have seen the damage it can do to teens like me. I’m 15 years old, and I started to see the negative effects of social media on my peers in the sixth grade.

I have had a rough upbringing, so my social media experience was different from most of my peers. In Texas, I lived in extreme poverty, and I tried to hide that fact on social media. I created accounts to make my home life seem better than it was. It was hard to post content because I lived in a small hotel room with multiple people. I had hardly any space and even less privacy to do things with confidence, which I barely had as it was. Read more at Richmond Pulse.