In our hyper-connected, social-media-saturated society, many of us (especially young people) are so obsessed with snapping 'selfies' and living a virtual life online that we're forgetting how to care for the people right in front of us IRL (that's 'in real life'). The resulting Selfie Syndrome is leading to an empathy crisis among today's youth; teens today are forty percent less empathetic than they were just a generation ago, and narcissism has increased fifty-eight percent during that same period. But there is a solution: studies show that the antidote to Selfie Syndrome is empathy.
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