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H ow so c i a l m edi a a ffe c t se l f - es t ee m HAR HALEBANON CONG. At TorahValues.com search shul abbreviation HHC By: Sari Cattan Barkai Yeshiva In my opinion social media can affect friendships and relationships in both good and bad ways. In a negative way, social media gives you the wrong judgment of others and gives others the wrong judgment of you. If one of your friends doesn’t post a picture for your birthday, apparently it Social media encourages to impress, not to connect. By: Raquel Botton Magen David Yeshivah Social media affects quality of true means that you are not close friends. It definitely lowers your confidence, especially when you see a popular person who has tons of followers and getting lots of likes and you are not getting as many as them. Everything with these social media causes people to make judgments about each other. BETH YOSEF CONG. At TorahValues.com search shul abbreviation BYS friendship. But how? One time, I decided to go on Instagram. I saw one of my friends posted a picture with a few of my other friends. When I saw that picture, it made me jealous. I decided not to go on Instagram anymore because I realized that, every time I went on it, I always wanted what everyone else had. Social media makes a person addicted to likes and followers and many more unproductive things. On social media like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, you’re gaining “friends”. But, in real life how many of those people are really your friends? It’s better to invest in 1 friendship than 100 Social media encourages you to do what’s cool and not what you enjoy people and end up with zero friends. 70 Bar/Bat Mitzvah Magazine 718-909-6060 View magazine online at BMmagazine.com