【推荐1】Fear of missing out or FOMO is characterized by “a desire to stay continually connected with what others are doing”.

Researchers have found that FOMO leads us to check social media more frequently, leading to a negative cycle that can be hard to break.     1     Your mood will be easily influenced by others and your life starts to be controlled by the outside world. However, the situation can be improved if you take the following advice.

    2     Try to reduce our screen time, focus on building your own path to success and do what you like. Live in the moment, you will find nothing is missing out in our life!

It is common to post on social media to keep a record of the fun things you do.     3     If this is the case, you may try to keep a personal journal of your best memories, either online or on paper. Keeping a journal can help you to shift your focus from public approval to private appreciation of the things that make your life great.     4    

You may find yourself seeking a greater connection when you are feeling depressed or anxious, and this is healthy. Feelings of loneliness are actually our brain’s way of telling us that we want to seek out greater connections with others and increase our sense of belonging.     5     Talking with families, making plans with a good friend, or creating a group outing that can help you to shake that feeling that you are missing out.

【推荐2】It is a debate that has divided Italy-and the social media-right in the middle. The advice by one of Italy’s top ranking physicists to save gas by turning it off when cooking pasta (意大利面) has brought about anger and protest from pasta lovers and chefs alike.

In a video shared to social media, Giorgio Parisi, who won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics for his groundbreaking contributions in quantum (量子) theory, recently recommended that Italians add pasta to a pan of boiling water, bring it to the boil, wait two minutes, put a lid on, and then shut off the gas.

Parisi suggested that “at least eight minutes of energy consumption” is saved by using this method. “The most important thing is to keep the lid on, “ he added. “A lot of heat is lost through evaporation (蒸发). Shortly after boiling the pasta, turn off the gas, so that it boils very little without consuming energy. ”

What followed next was widespread outrage in Italy. Many Italians, who take their pasta seriously, expressed disbelief that someone-even if that is a remarkable Nobel winner-would dare suggest something as strange about a beloved national dish.

Many chefs joined the chorus, strongly contesting the theory. Local Italian press quoted multiple pasta makers, chefs and cooking experts as saying that pasta cooked by turning the heat off once the water is brought to the boil would turn it sticky and rubbery. Italy’s noted chef Luigi Pomata was quoted by media as saying: “It would be a disaster. Let’s leave cooking to chefs while physicists do experiments in their lab. ”

Most restaurants also talked back, contradicting the possibility, with the common concern being that Parisi’s suggestion would compromise the flavour of pasta—a product firmly rooted in Italian culture. Spaghetti, Macaroni, Bow ties, Penne and Ziti are some of the more popular pasta varieties globally.

【推荐3】From the flower crown to the one that makes you look like an adorable baby deer, Snapchat’s filters (滤镜) are famously pleasing. But if you have ever shifted your phone and seen the filter disappear, revealing your normal human face on the screen instead, you may have thought to yourself, “I wish I looked like a Snapchat filter in real life.”

This is a real and increasingly common way of thinking, according to the plastic surgeons who authored a recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). For some people, the authors say, this obsession with looking as perfect as they do in their filtered social media photos has become so extreme that experts place it on the body dysmorphia disorder spectrum.

Body dysmorphia disorder (BDD) is a mental health condition and a type of obsessive compulsive disorder in which a person becomes obsessed with thoughts about appearance imperfection. “For someone with BDD, their entire life’s balance hangs on whether they look okay or whether they have hidden their appearance imperfection appropriately,” Tom Hildebrandt, PsyD, chief of the Division of Eating and Weight Disorders, explained in a previous interview.

The JAMA article names this latest version of the disorder “Snapchat dysmorphia disorder,” saying that apps like Snapchat and Face Tune are giving rise to new unattainable standards of beauty.

In the past, the authors write, patients would show up in their plastic surgeon’s office with photos of celebrities that had been edited to perfection in magazine spreads. Now, they say, patients want to look like filtered versions of themselves instead, with fuller lips, bigger eyes, or a thinner nose. According to recent data, 55% of surgeons report that patients are looking for plastic surgery to improve the appearance the way they look in social media selfies.

“This is an alarming trend,” the authors write, “because those filtered selfies often present an unattainable look and are blurring the boundary between reality and fantasy for these patients.”