{"id":99467,"date":"2015-03-15T06:26:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T06:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=99467"},"modified":"2015-03-15T06:26:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T06:26:31","slug":"obsessing-over-the-perfect-social-media-post-is-ruining-your-life-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/03\/obsessing-over-the-perfect-social-media-post-is-ruining-your-life-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Obsessing over the perfect social media post is ruining your life – Study"},"content":{"rendered":"
Social media likes are ruining your life \u2014 and now there’s proof.<\/p>\n
Joseph Grenny and David Maxfield, co-authors of New York Times<\/em> bestsellers like Crucial Conversations<\/em>, have unveiled a new study on the way “likes” and the need for other social media praise affect our day-to-day lives. The results of the study, which surveyed 1,623 people, paint a picture of a social media-obsessed society.<\/p>\n About 58% of people surveyed said “posting the perfect picture has prevented them from enjoying life experiences.” Sound familiar? Trying to get that perfect concert photo, or just<\/em> the right sunset pic sometimes interferes with enjoying the experience itself.<\/p>\n For Maxfield, the impetus for the study was personal \u2014 on his 60th birthday, he took his nieces out boogie boarding, but was more focused on capturing the moment than living in it.<\/p>\n “I was kind of ignoring my nieces in order to get a trophy of our time together,” Maxfield tellsMashable<\/em>.<\/p>\n Grenny and Maxfield dub this kind of social media “trophy hunting,” because it goes beyond wanting to capture a nice moment.<\/p>\n “They want to kill it and stuff it and put it on their wall,” Maxfield says.<\/p>\n