Social media triggers unprecedented intensity of social comparison among the young.

Evidence

Social media marks a new era in the intensity, density, and pervasiveness of social comparison processes, especially for the youngest among us, who are “almost constantly online” at a time of life when one’s own identity, voice, and moral agency are a work in progress. In fact, the psychological tsunami of social comparison triggered by the social media experience is considered unprecedented. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1472

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: which specific studies establish this unprecedented intensity, and how is ‘unprecedented’ operationalized?
• XREF: connects to: Digital natives are the best-adjusted teens on record by statistical measures. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 419; Social comparison is the dominant psychological process in the Facebook experience. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1470; Facebook exposure drives social comparison and envy on an unprecedented scale — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1476 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Facebook exposure drives social comparison and envy on an unprecedented scale #corroborates (0.95) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1476
• Social media intensifies but did not invent adolescent craving for peer recognition. #qualifies (0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1439
• Social media’s engineered feedback loops convert normal social comparison into compulsive anxiety #expands (0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1485
• Generation Z’s constant social media use creates an outside-looking-in dependency on others for identity #expands (0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1425
• Social media is precision-engineered to exploit adolescent desires for peer recognition. #expands (0.78) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1432
• Social media turned attention capture into mutual self-display at unprecedented scale #expands (0.75) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 1062
• Social media’s design rewards visibility and self-promotion with social status. #expands (0.72) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 39