Social Thinking Reflection

The study of how individuals interact, think, and their emotion affect the people around them describe what psychologists, like Kurt Lewin, analyze in social psychology. Being an anxious, self-effacing, and quiet individual, I can apply that to my social thinking toward my everyday life. Being from Laotian and Thai descent, my culture revolved around contemplating beforehand what one might say so that other person’s feelings were not hurt. Taking this into consideration, my daily intuition has been shaped to suit my needs of observing and analyzing people. Whether I’m walking around school, a store, or even in my neighborhood, I tend to make decisions based on my judgement. Examinations worked half of the time, as I tried to avoid the crowd

Making intuitions was the source of most of my, unusual, despondent mood. Being comfortable with a person is difficult for me because of constant internal reminders of not being good enough. Growing up in an age of social media, which is a social problem, has negatively shaped my self-esteem. Facebook, Snapchat, or Instagram are all social media that most people use on the daily. Pictures and videos capture another person’s portrayal of their daily life, completely unlike how I live my life. Although I can tell expectation from reality, it still makes me wonder how society can depict a life so perfectly and internally, I make a “comparison” to that ideal lifestyle. The social representations of today’s society depict women as having to appear beautiful all the time. As women strive to look younger by getting injections of botulinum toxin or becoming anorexic to be skinnier, it’s disheartening to see women go through such lengths to appear beautiful. However, it’s even more demoralizing to know that I’ve put myself through a little dieting because of classmates telling me that I’m overweight. Reflecting back on the comments, I was not overweight as a child. However, since I’m a fraternal twin, people compared me to her and I seemed larger. My sister was lean, essentially we were the same height, but I was plump. As my peers could not tell the difference between my sister and I, they would

As a teenager, social media should basically take up most of their life and schedule. I’m inclined to post pictures and connect to other people my age over social media. Social media is the driving force of communication. Hand-written letters bear no significance to how quickly texting can be, one may even shorten phrases to mean the same expression. Pictures and messages that are sent online stay on the internet forever. However, I made a decision to not revolve my life around social media, as I have some accounts that are uselessly made just for the sake of it. I’ve observed though that cyberbullying is the starting point to gossip, harassment, and rumors. Being diffident and not outspoken caused people to ridicule my personality, claiming that since I’m a teenager I should post pictures and be audacious. Other peers my age did not understand that my life is not reflected upon portraying my life as something that it is not. Additionally, I did not want to post a picture or message that would permanently stay on the