Join Poala and Taylor as we review last week's study on instagram addiction. Paola tries deleting her instagram, and we both agree we feel concerningly powerless in resisting the IG scroll. We chat about how influential Instagram has been in political and activism movements. Taylor speculates on her various motivations behind her Instagram use, and it leads us to wonder how the pandemic has influenced our technology use overall. Have we learned to become "more connected" in a disconnected way? What might it mean to connect with ourselves instead of our social media? And finally, we both pledge to never use Instagram again.... (kidding.)

The study we chat about today is called, "Instagram addiction and the Big Five of personality: The mediating role of self-liking" by Kagan Kircaburun and Mark D. Griffiths. You can find the study here: https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.7.2018.15

Please subscribe, rate and review our show on Apple Podcasts!

Follow the show on Instagram @studybuddiespodcast Follow Taylor Collins @tlc.therapy Follow Paola Sanchez Abreu @mmm_pao

Graphic designed by Monica Rae Summers Gonzalez @_monicarae_

Composed by singer/songwriter Caught In Between @caughtinbetweenct

Email the show with any suggestions, comments, or feedback at [email protected]