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When friend groups' digital communication triggers social anxiety

Our friend group plans everything through Instagram stories and group chats and my anxiety around missing things or being left out is getting worse but when I try to talk about it everyone says I'm being too sensitive.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The group's preferred methods of connection exclude or distress some members without space for that reality to be acknowledged.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Social media — psychological effects?”

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