When you open Instagram, you will find enough Stories posted at the top of the page to fill an entire evening. Sure, see some, and then click on Someone's Story You Don't Follow: Yourself.
But why? Why almost all platform users can't resist the temptation to see what they posted on Story when they know very well what they've shared with the world.
Dr. Allison Forti, psychologist and adjunct lecturer at Wake Forest University, told Mashable that the tendency to look at our posts can be partly explained by the psychological concept called "seeing ourselves from the outside" which means that people see themselves as they think they see them. others.
"People are constantly looking at their Instagram posts to inform their identities," she said. "For example, if they see a Story of their own that they think looks good, that they have made others laugh or reflect and consequently, others perceive them in a positive light, they themselves perceive themselves positively."
In other words, by looking at our posts we make sure that others think well of us, that we think well of ourselves.
Another lecturer, Dr. Kent Bausman, an online Sociology expert at Maryville University, explains the phenomenon through the sociological concept of dramaturgy: that life, self, and human interactions are like actors performing on stage.
?When we start the day, when we go out on the streets and interact with others, we put on a performance. We're telling the world who we are, ?Bausman explains. ?But when we get home, we get off the stage and calm down. Here we go backstage and process what happened on stage, so how did we appear before the people. ?
In other words, when we post during the day on Instagram Stories we perform in front of them. When we come home and review what we have posted, we analyze our performance, how interesting, how positive, how natural we are.
Is it harmful to see your posts several times a day? If you don't feel any negative effects, no.
Adapted from Mashable
