Do Social Media Make You Shallow?

Users are living in the false impression of having a larger friend circles and followings online.

- Mala Ashok

If you are twenty something, you can probably relate to texting and rapid fire use of social media. If you are older you probably have children who do this. Whatever age group you may be, you are some way or other connected with social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.

Well, read on because this may make you sit up and think. You may be heading down a perilous digital path towards ‘Moral Shallowness’, if a new Canadian study is to be believed. The study was conducted at the University of Windsor. Undergraduate students were asked to rank the importance of dozens of life goals.