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Psychological injury resulting from direct, cumulative, or vicarious exposure to harmful experiences on social media platforms. This includes targeted harassment campaigns (dogpiling), doxxing, revenge porn, cyberstalking, extreme public shaming, and witnessing graphic violence or hate speech. Unlike general internet stress, it's tied to the specific architectures of social platforms: viral amplification, permanence of content, network effects linking different life spheres (work, family, friends), and algorithmically-fueled harassment. The trauma stems from the feeling of being hunted, exposed, and powerless in a space that feels ubiquitously connected to one's social identity.
Example: A teenage artist posts a mildly political drawing. It gets picked up by a hate group whose members flood her notifications with rape threats, photoshop her face onto obscene images, find her school, and call her principal accusing her of crimes. She deletes her accounts but knows the images are still out there. She develops panic attacks at phone notifications, isolates from friends, and feels perpetually unsafe. This is acute social media trauma—the platform's features turned a single post into a life-altering assault.
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Example: A journalist who survived a coordinated mob attack on Twitter now compulsively checks three different analytics tools before posting anything, drafts tweets in a notes app to scrutinize them for "attack vectors," has lost their authentic voice online, and experiences a full-body freeze response when seeing a certain notification sound. Their offline relationships suffer because they're emotionally exhausted from this constant digital defense posture. Their personality and nervous system have been pathologically shaped by the platform's hostile dynamics. Social Media Trauma Syndrome.
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