Response to “Comments on ‘The Stress Factor of Social Media’”

Dr Abrams has touched upon a very serious systemic problem with social media, which, as he rightly points out, produces tremendous stress.¹ The dilemma we face with fake reviews and fabricated complaints posted on the Internet is discussed at length in my previous editorial, "Anonymous Sources,"² and certainly deserves continued attention. The point of my more recent editorial³ on social media obsession (SMO), however, was to suggest that SMO stress—unlike stress produced by the untruthfulness of others—often may be mitigated through individual self-awareness and self-regulation.