Feed the need for others’ approval and self-construction is impaired.
Evidence
Facebook relies on specific practices that feed the inclinations of people, especially young people, to know themselves from “the outside looking in.” Most critical is that the more the need for the “others” is fed, the less able one is to engage the work of self-construction. So devastating is the failure to attain that positive equilibrium between inner and outer life that Lapsley and Woodbury say it is “at the heart” of most adult personality disorders. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1454
Categorization
- XREF: This echoes Mead’s social self theory and connects to the reader’s social-capital framework; also parallels the ‘liquid modernity’ concern about identity under platform pressure. — connects to: Overly self-aware individuals without self-compassion become overly sensitive to life’s challenges, taking them personally. — The Downside of Self-Awareness; Being-for-others is suffered rather than actively existed; This lack of reflection impairs therapeutic capacity and the ability to be self-aware enough to participate in authentic relationship. — The White British Counselling Psychologist (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Humans have fragile selves that need social approval to survive
#corroborates(0.85) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 537 - Being-for-others is suffered rather than actively existed
#expands(0.75) - Social prescriptions can constitute the self rather than constrain it.
#qualifies(0.75) — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 1033