Social media has become a fundamental part of my life. The report found that positive Facebook status updates tend to lead to other, similar statuses. This has been the key distinction in improving my own relationship with social media. Social media only becomes emotionally unhealthy when we see it as a source of individual validation. Our responsibility is to foster a healthy relationship with social media by examining and understanding it in communal terms, while maintaining a balance between the digital and analog methods of experiencing the world.