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Social learning during pandemic

During the pandemic, while everyone was at their house, social learning peaked with the influence
of social media and household members. Some of the examples for this statement would be how
people saw other people cooking in quarantine and started cooking themselves. Another one would
be how most of the brands started turning to online shops after seeing how others performed better
that way because of the pandemic. We saw lots of ''at home'' challenges getting popular this year on
social media. The reason behind it is how people saw others getting popular with those challenges.

For example, after spending almost six months in the same house with my sister, I started taking
over her habits on to myself, such as starting doing yoga. When she started doing yoga, I saw how
she started feeling better and also how she got in shape. She had more energy during the day as
well, which made her more productive. After seeing her results, I decided that I also wanted to get
in shape and be more productive. So I started doing yoga too.

I believe that there are lots of people who have been observing and modeling each other's behaviors
because of spending most of their time together. That is why I mentioned that social learning
peaked during this pandemic.