第1445期:Social media sadness

Are you a social media addict? Are you always checking your smartphone to see how many 'likes' you've received for your latest post? 你是社交媒体上瘾者吗？您是否一直在查看您的智能手机以查看您的最新帖子收到了多少“赞”？Maybe you feel comforted by the notification sound that someone has sent you a message?也许您对有人向您发送消息的通知声音感到安慰？Don't worry, you're not alone. We check our phones an average of 150 times a day, and around 30% of the total time spent online is dedicated to social media.别担心，你并不孤单。我们平均每天检查手机 150 次，在线花费的总时间中约有 30% 用于社交媒体。 Some experts now fear this habit could be damaging our mental health.一些专家现在担心这种习惯可能会损害我们的心理健康。This is something particularly afflicting young adults, according to a study from the University of Pittsburgh.根据匹兹堡大学的一项研究，这尤其困扰着年轻人。 It found the more they used social media, the more likely they are to be depressed. 它发现他们使用社交媒体的次数越多，他们就越有可能感到沮丧。In tests, those people who checked social media frequently were 2.7 times more likely to be depressed compared to those who spent most of their time generally surfing the internet, who had just 1.7 times the risk. 在测试中，那些经常查看社交媒体的人患抑郁症的可能性是那些大部分时间都在网上冲浪的人的 2.7 倍，后者的风险只有 1.7 倍。The study found that exposure to “highly idealised representations of peers on social media elicits feelings of envy and the distorted belief that others lead happier, more successful lives.”研究发现，“在社交媒体上接触到高度理想化的同龄人形象会引发嫉妒的感觉，并且会产生一种扭曲的信念，即他人过着更快乐、更成功的生活。”Some of us certainly feel sad when we're ignored on social media sites, or when we see someone else having a better time than us.当我们在社交媒体网站上被忽视时，或者当我们看到其他人比我们过得更好时，我们中的一些人肯定会感到难过。 But depression is a more serious condition and clinical psychologist, Abigael San, recently told the BBC that, "It’s a real issue, and it’s been getting significantly worse over the last 5-6 years. 但抑郁症是一种更严重的疾病，临床心理学家阿比盖尔·桑最近告诉 BBC，“这是一个真正的问题，在过去的 5 到 6 年里变得越来越严重。You can get so hooked that it takes you away from your real relationships." However, Abigael does admit that social media is more likely to exacerbate pre-existing issues than directly cause them.你可能会如此着迷，以至于它会让你远离你的真实关系。”然而，阿比盖尔确实承认，社交媒体更有可能加剧先前存在的问题，而不是直接导致它们。Other research by Glasgow University found that teenagers are affected by the 24-hour demands of their social media accounts. 格拉斯哥大学的其他研究发现，青少年会受到社交媒体账户 24 小时需求的影响。It found that those with higher levels of emotional investment in social media, and who use it at night, were more likely to feel depressed and anxious.研究发现，那些对社交媒体情感投入程度较高且在晚上使用它的人更容易感到沮丧和焦虑。Despite these warning signs, why do some of us continue to keep clicking? Well, I suppose we all want to be liked and we don't want to miss out on a conversation that's taking place online.尽管有这些警告信号，为什么我们中的一些人继续点击？好吧，我想我们都想被喜欢，我们不想错过在线上进行的对话。 But we need to know when to switch off our virtual online world and connect with the real world instead.但我们需要知道何时关闭我们的虚拟在线世界，转而与现实世界建立联系。  词汇表addict 有瘾的人comforted 得到安慰的dedicated 专用（于）mental health 心理健康afflicting 使…受苦的、苦恼的exposure 接触idealised 理想化的elicit 诱出，引出envy 羡慕，嫉妒condition 疾病hooked 上瘾的，入迷的exacerbate 使恶化pre-existing 先已存在的，既往（病史）emotional investment 情感投入anxious 焦虑的virtual online world 虚拟的网络世界

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