Social media is a group of electronic platforms that people can post pictures for other people to see. It was invented for people to connect with each others that they cannot see every day. The horrible truth is that social media is ruining people’s self esteem and causing mental health issues. I believe that although there are many good uses of social media we can all agree that the negatives outweigh the positives. Some people think that social media is a good way to vent out your emotions and but I think that this essay will change your mind. Invaded privacy, mental health issues and lack of communication are just a few of the many consequences coming from the use of social media. We need to buckle down on the use of social media by kids …show more content…
Some of the ways people can hack in to our account or even get your information without hacking include: catfishing, phishing and logging into our accounts via pour easily findable emails, usernames etc. Catfishing is when you pretend that you are someone else to lure someone into telling their information. There are many catfishing accounts on every social media account Kim Lacapria from Social Daily News states “83 million Facebook accounts are fake or duplicate in nature.” (LaCapria March 23 2013). Also, according to nextshark.com one in every ten online dating site accounts are fake. Finally, according to datingadvice.com 53% of online dating accounts are fabricated to make themselves seem better. My next point is phishing. Phishing is when you try to take someones information. Often phishers send a link to someone, this link normally hacks their account and takes their information. Marika Samarati from government states that there is an average 400 000 phishing websites are viewed every month. (Samarati)This could be catastrophic for people that click on these links because their bank account …show more content…
Because of social media and its users description of a “perfect life” it is making people feel worse about theirs. Some effects of social media are depression, thoughts of self harm and suicide, and finally anxiety. Depression is a mental health disease that negatively affect how you act, how you think and how you feel. In many cases social media can be linked to depression Jeff Nalin from the Anxiety and Depression Association of America states “When teenagers scroll through their newsfeed, it's easy for them to think that all of their friends and classmates are perfect, making them feel left out.” (Nalin) The more people on Social media the higher depression rates. According to a survey conducted by psychnews.com people that use seven of the eleven big social media platforms are three times more likely. psycom.com states that the depression rates in adolescents has gone up almost 3% from 2005 to 2014. Next there is self harm and/or suicide, this is when you have bad mental health and decide to take your own life. The Associated Press of New York Post states “Teens’ use of electronic devices including smartphones for at least five hours daily more than doubled, from 8 percent in 2009 to 19 percent in 2015. These teens were 70 percent more likely to have suicidal thoughts or actions than those who reported one hour of daily use.” (Associated press, Nov 14, 2017) This proves that social media is linked with suicide and
Studies also found that 6.4% had intentionally cut bruised or harmed themselves and that 8.1% had though about suicide and 1.3% had actually attempted suicide. This evidence shows that social media is bad for teens and preteens. If social media got banned then there would not be any sort of problem like this.
These changes individuals of all ages but the ones that are more involve are the ones that feel the most stress if they cannot keep up. Individuals with the most exposure to media especially in reference to suicide lead to an increase in suicide rates (Mueller & Abrutyn, 2015). An example of media influence is presenting suicide cases of celebrities specially individuals that have a prolong exposure to the public (Abrutyn & Mueller, 2014). Also social network have taken the internet like a storm making it one of the most useful tools especially in young generations. While using social media individuals are expose to others ideas, emotions and opinions that could encourage them to adopt suicidal
How the social networking influents young people’s psychological well-being? Since the World Wide Web appeared in the world in the year of 1991, the internet has significantly changed people’s life on almost every level. Especially when the social media sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, became popular during the last decade, people’s lifestyles have greatly changed by this form of communication, which consequently brings many psychological effects on the young people. As the result, according to the recent researches, the teenagers and the young adults in this era are bearing many mental health problems, such as depression, anxiety, and addiction, due to the social
This house believes that social media is one of the biggest problems in our society. Although social media is an easier and quicker way of communication it can cause many different problems to arise. Such as cyber-bullying, one out of four students have been cyber bullied at least once or more times. Privacy issues can also be an issue the longer you are interactive on social media. Social media is a way for people to be able to reconnect with long lost friends and family members as well as make new relationships with others.
Social Media, as we know, is only growing in popularity. Given that fact, will only become more prevalent in our daily lives as time passes. It will be only foolish to pay attention to how such an important part of our culture is affecting our society and the individuals in it. It is undoubtedly clear that social media comes with a fair amount of negative and positive mental effects. Social media does negatively affect the mental health of people by providing an exposure to vulgar content, cyber-bullying, and an insufficient amount of in-person interactions.
I’m convinced that social media has a negative influence on the self-esteem of its users. The University of Salford in the UK did a study last year on social media’s effects on self-esteem and anxiety, and reported that 50% of their 298 participants said that their “use of social networks like Facebook and Twitter makes their lives worse”.... ... middle of paper ... ...
While this research gave her a very detailed insight into how social media can have a positive effect on younger people by improving social interactivity it also revealed that when a child is bullied on social media it can have an extremely injurious effect on their mental health. She feels that with the presence facebook especially, it leads to narcissism antisocial tendencies and aggression, while overuse cases anxiety and depression. The two main causes of anxiety and depression due to social media are researched to be bullying and unrealistic expectations such as unrealistic looks, weight and valuables. When teenagers, especially females, see these unrealistic expectations and understand that it is unreasonable to achieve these so called desirable factors they put an immense amount of pressure on themselves as they feel that they aren 't good enough which causes anxiety and depression (Sternberg Clinic, 2015). Another major negative impact that social media can have on an young individual 's mental health when used excessively is impacting the quality of students school work and overall performance. Teens are masters at keeping themselves occupied in the hours after school and way past their bedtime, which results in them not attempting to complete their homework. When students try to multi-task by studying and checking
Social media is so popular that according to a recent article published by forbes.com, “72% of American adults are currently using social media sites; that figure has gone up 800% in just 8 years”(Olenski). Social networking was originally created to simply reconnect people with old high school pals, but in recent years it has evolved into a completely different operation. When social media first originated it was also intended for adult usage, which has in recent years expanded into the usage of all ages. Social media can create a negative affect on lives because it has been proven to be a dangerous addiction, for it takes away interpersonal relationships that are essential in life, and it has been proven to prevent people from being productive in life.
Besides cyberbullying, there are many other negative outcomes for American youth in the use of social media websites like Facebook. For example, many teens are using shorthand and abbreviations when writing or communicating online. Additionally, teens lose themselves in social media, ignore their surroundings and even become addicted to social media. Consequences of this include a rise in obesity, devaluation in family, lack of exercise and decrease in focus on school and homework. Adolescents that use social media more often than others are more prone to “narcissistic tendencies,” “anxiety, depression, and other psychological disorders” (Protalinski, 2011). American youth that share more online also display manic, aggressive and antisocial behaviors.
Sinek says that people are affected by having lower self-esteem and depression. I have noticed that after using Facebook or other social media, I feel depressed because I see people who are not enjoying life. Young people want to become popular and liked by everyone even if their friendships are superficial. As Sinek states “An entire generation now has access to an addictive, numbing chemical called dopamine.” Dopamine makes you feel good, using technology and getting likes in social media and is affecting them by making them addicted. It makes a strong impact on our self- esteem and creates a negative perspective of ourselves. This causes us to feel less than others. We all feel that we need to be approved by others and we start to feel depressed for not being good enough for them. Consequently, there have been people who have committed suicide due to bullying on social media networks. This supports my opinion because unfortunately, our generation depends on technology too much. From personal experiences I have spent all day on the internet and I don’t interact with anyone around me; Instead of communicating with someone in person I decide to text them. Teenagers are spending many hours in front of cell phones or computers which causes them to get addicted. However millennials do not have good communications skills so they are afraid to interact with people physically because they were raised like
Like technology, our species has adapted to fit modern times. Through these adaptations, we have begun to communicate through our newly developed technology through social media. In today’s society, we are surrounded by sites such as Facebook, Twitter, E-Mail, and various other websites that can often times consume our lives. While social media has plenty of advantages, it also has disadvantages that often times get ignored. As Internet users, it is important to examine these disadvantages and make sure we understand the negative side to social media.
Some of the effects of using social media can be depression, addiction, cyberbullying, and exposure to inappropriate content. One of the most concerning effects of social media is depression. When teens create an online identity, they often display an unauthentic self. This “other” self is often what the person wants to be. Having to jump from the online self to the real self can often lead to depression.
Social media has nothing but negative effects on people’s minds. Social networking can become very addicting and people can get wrapped up in the drama and excitement of the cyber world. It would only improve our society today if social media never existed to our knowledge. Our society today feels so connected with social media that it interferes with our lives making every task even harder with the temptations.
There are about one and a half billion users of social media worldwide. It can be used to meet new people, find old friends, chat the day away, join interest groups, or even to share pictures. Social networks were mostly created so people could meet and find new friends. What most users of social media don't know, are the dangers of using social media. One example is when you meet a person online, because they are not always who they say they are. If someone is not who you may think they are, who could they be? They can be a stalker or a person that wants to steal your identity; which could be done easily thanks to new developments of new technology. Also thanks to new technology it is now easier for people using your information to track you. Posting personal information can risk your family and friends lives. Social media can be used as a weapon against you. It can even lead to a kidnapping, or even someone's death. Many people use social media to help to waste time, but could also become an unhealthy addiction. Also social media can damage your future. When you are a teen you tend to post pretty much anything you want. This is dangerous because you can post too much personal information. What most teens don't realize is that what they do on social media now can affect them for the rest of their life. It can even come back to haunt you in the future. Social media is dangerous because it makes it easier to be stalked, identity theft to happen, kidnappings and murders, and also can ruin your future.
According to the article, “10 Ways Social Media Affects Our Mental Problems,” Degreed claim that social media make us restless by “two-thirds admitted to having difficulty relaxing when unable to use their social media accounts.” Teenagers are always tired when they have to stay up late at night to catch up with all the news feed on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter that make them have no energy to go on the next day. Based on the newspaper, “Excessive Social Media Use Harms Children’s Mental Health,” by the Telegraph shows that “children who go on social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for more than three hours a day are more likely to have mental health problems.” Social media can lead to bullying that affects teenagers mental health issue and being stressed. Social media have now taken a part of human life and some are addicted to the point where they can’t even live without