Facebook And Facebook: The Detriental Effects Of Social Media

Social media is a source of communication typically in the form of television, magazines, internet, social networking, and cell phones. It is a platform where the users are given opportunity to share information, and participate in social networking. Erin A. Vogel together with her colleagues, in their article titled “Social Comparison, Social Media, and Self-Esteem”, argued that using social networking websites like Facebook can have a “detrimental effects” on the users’ well-being due to the “upward social comparisons” with others. Their study mainly concentrated on social networking sites, like Facebook, and its effects. Furthermore, Chuck Hadad, in his article “Why some 13 year olds check social media 100 times a day”, explains the harmful

I believe, this anxiety can be viewed as another form of addiction caused by to repeated exposure to media which in return elicit the desire, among teens, to be like those celebrities and glamorous people. Hadad quoted a child clinical psychologist, Marion Underwood, who believes that teens are addicted to the peer connection and affirmation on social media that most teens are constantly checking their phones to find out what their friends are doing, where they stand in the social network, how many people liked their posts, and how many people followed and unfollowed them (Hadad, 2015). Hadad also point out that 61 percent of teens check the social network to see if their online posts are getting likes and comments, 36 percent of them checked to see if their friends are doing things without them, and 21 percent checked to make sure no one was saying mean things about them (Hadad, 2015). These behaviors are a clear sign of addictions with symptoms of restlessness and anxiety. I believe, teens with such pressures and stress from the social media can suffer from physical and psychological distress. These teens