{"id":259131,"date":"2020-07-31T06:55:21","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T13:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=259131"},"modified":"2020-07-31T07:02:39","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T14:02:39","slug":"social-fear-aversion-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/31\/social-fear-aversion-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Fear Aversion Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the worst ills of &#8216;Gen Z&#8217; kids:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>They cannot make eye contact, have poor social skills.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even us &#8216;Millenials&#8217;. We cannot make eye contact. We always got our AirPods in. It is not considered &#8216;cool&#8217; to talk to strangers. Worse yet, most people don&#8217;t got the guts (or <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/01\/social-skills-are-the-future\/\">social skills<\/a>) to talk to strangers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But what is the real problem here? Twofold:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Modern society doesn&#8217;t encourage talking to strangers or interacting with strangers (stranger danger)<\/li><li>Technology and our phones make us socially averse to other people. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/erickim\/episodes\/Social-Fear-Aversion-Therapy-ehg52a\">PODCAST<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/erickim\/embed\/episodes\/Social-Fear-Aversion-Therapy-ehg52a\" height=\"102px\" width=\"400px\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Social-Fear-Aversion-Therapy.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption>Social Fear Aversion Therapy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Social Fear Aversion Therapy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D1PLLJXbOOA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-videopress\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"VideoPress Video Player\" aria-label='VideoPress Video Player' width='500' height='281' src='https:\/\/videopress.com\/embed\/hndP6VkM?autoPlay=1&amp;loop=1&amp;muted=1&amp;persistVolume=0&amp;preloadContent=metadata&amp;hd=0&amp;cover=1' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen allow='clipboard-write'><\/iframe><script src='https:\/\/v0.wordpress.com\/js\/next\/videopress-iframe.js?m=1674852142'><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption>Social Fear Aversion Therapy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the worst ills of &#8216;Gen Z&#8217; kids: They cannot make eye contact, have poor social skills. Even us &#8216;Millenials&#8217;. We cannot make eye contact. We always got our AirPods in. It is not considered &#8216;cool&#8217; to talk to strangers. Worse yet, most people don&#8217;t got the guts (or social skills) to talk to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":258426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/63267E64-3AF9-422E-B13B-85ED5D54C2C7.jpeg?fit=1381%2C1025&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259131"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259152,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259131\/revisions\/259152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}