Social Media and Mental Health: The Impact on Today’s Smartphone Users

2023-10-05 16:22:26

Today, there are few people who do not use a smart phone. Smartphone usage is so widespread. Accordingly, the use of social media is also widespread today. Today, there are few people who do not use any social media platform.

We can use social media in two ways. One is to use it to gain knowledge, seek opportunities, and develop healthy relationships in ways that benefit us. Two- On the contrary, using unnecessary information and topics that trouble our brains, bore us, and get us into unhealthy relationships and entanglements.

Social media should be used wisely. At the same time, it is not good for us to overuse or rely on social media for any purpose. A study report that can be read along with this is now noteworthy.

The study found that students’ excessive use of social media is damaging their mental health. The researchers conducted this study on university students from China, Taiwan and Malaysia.

The researchers collected information on these issues through an online survey. Studies show that most people are affected by phone addiction. The researchers found among them the fear of living without a phone, the fear of losing the phone, and the condition of having a problem if the phone is not in hand for a while.

Apart from this, the study also estimates that a good percentage of young people have problems such as lack of confidence, anxiety, depression and inferiority complex due to the use of social media. Researchers attribute all of this to the human tendency to compare others to ourselves.

They point to body fat as an example. Social media is a big cause of mental problems for people with and without fat.

The study also shows that people who use social media for more than four hours a day have mental problems related to it. The only thing we can do to avoid these kinds of challenges is to practice using social media in a healthy way.

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