Social Media Distancing: Disconnect from a Connected World

Wes Cassell
6 min readApr 15, 2020

Social media can wreak havoc on our mental health. Here’s why you need to log off and practice social media distancing.

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Humans are social creatures. We have a primal instinct to connect and communicate. In less than 200 years, we went from shouting to handwritten letters to telegraphs to telephones to pocket-sized supercomputers.

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Wes Cassell

Husband. Father. Runner. Writer for hire. Am I a hero? I really can’t say. But yes.