How does excessive use of social media affect mental health? Can someone help me as soon as possible, please
1 Answer
Excessive use of social media can have negative effects on mental health for those who cannot properly process the endless information and comparisons, and that can lead to depression and loneliness.
Explanation:
In spite of its name, social media has become unsocial to some because of its capacity to overwhelm viewers with massive content, connectivity, and anonymity.
There are millions of pages added to the internet hourly and content can be published with no authorization, nor guarantee of correctness or error-checking, or even the author's name, let alone credentials.
For those who trying to keep up with this barrage of information and communication, social media can become another problem in their day. People can become anxious because they feel intimidated by the real or inferred comparisons with other's lives and feel their accomplishments minimized by them.
Communications skills learned by our ancestors are being replaced by websites, emails, and tweets, so people do not talk face to face as often, and that can result in problems of feeling neglected or left out. Social media can fill in gaps of idle time, or connect with people anywhere and anytime, but the personal connection between humans is disappearing.
There are more ideas here:
http://studentaffairs.gsu.edu/2016/06/10/excessive-use-social-media-mental-health/
This is a list of ways social media can affect mental health:
http://blog.degreed.com/10-ways-social-media-affects-our-mental-health/
