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Ms Eileen Oo, 20, decided to cut back on “toxic” social media when she was 17. The process took two years.
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SINGAPORE – Ms Eileen Oo, 20, used to feel down after scrolling through social media.
“I realised that every time I logged off apps such as Instagram and TikTok, I would feel dread and doom,” says the freelance fiction writer. “I was expecting impossible standards of myself, which gave rise to a negative inner voice.”
