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Who are you beneath the filter?
Social media is stealing your time. Even worse, it's reshaping your sense of self. You scroll, compare and perform, then wonder why even your biggest achievements leave you feeling hollow. But you don't have to quit the digital world to enjoy living in the real one. And understanding why you feel so disconnected from yourself is the first step towards reclaiming the things you love.
Real blends cutting-edge psychology and neuroscience to explain how social media challenges and disrupts your identity — and how you can reclaim it. Author Alexis Zahner is a business psychology expert, podcast host and self-confessed tech addict who has spent two decades inside the very platforms she writes about. Drawing on her own messy, honest journey back to herself, Alexis doesn't lecture. She gives you a practical framework for understanding your online habits and rebuilding a relationship with social media that works for you.
- Discover how dopamine loops and algorithms shape your behavior and learn how you can interrupt the cycle
- Understand how your online identity fragments over time and how to reconnect with your whole self
- Set personalised digital boundaries that protect your mental health and wellbeing without cutting you off from the world
- Navigate parasocial relationships, comparison culture and illusions of credibility with confidence
- Build rituals anchored to your real self, creating lasting change that goes far deeper than a detox
Complete with journaling prompts, self-assessments and reflection exercises, Real is as practical as it is illuminating. For anyone tired of living in the likes, suggested posts, sponsored ads and curated highlights, this book will change how you see your feed. Most importantly, it will change how you see the real you.
Table of Contents
Preface xiii
Introduction xvii
Part I The Digital Self 1
1 Who Am I? 3
2 Selfies, Filters and Self-Objectification 17
3 Identity Fragmentation, Comparison and Validation 25
4 Authenticity, Performance and the Genuine Fake Paradox 35
Part II How Your Brain Responds to Social Media 51
5 Addictive by Design 53
6 Attention Management 73
7 FOMO—Fear of Missing Out 81
8 Algorithmic Curation and Context Collapse 87
Part III The Social Web 103
9 Genuine Connection versus Pseudo-Connection 105
10 Parasocial Relationships 123
11 The Credibility Illusion 133
PART IV Living REAL: Reconnecting to Yourself 153
12 REALISE—A System of Relevance, Not Meaning 155
13 EXPAND—What You Actually Need to Thrive 161
14 ALIGN—Reframing Your Social Media Relationship 169
15 LIVE—A Life That You Belong To 187
Epilogue: Looking to the Future 199
Glossary 201
Acknowledgements 203
Reader Companion Guide 205
References 209
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