Contents:
- Medical Video: WHY I QUIT SOCIAL MEDIA FOR A YEAR AND WHAT I LEARNED
- Understanding the effects of social media on mental health
- 1. Social media makes addiction
- 2. Playing social media makes more sad than happy
- 3. Many friends on social media guarantee nothing
- 4. Too often playing social media damages health
Medical Video: WHY I QUIT SOCIAL MEDIA FOR A YEAR AND WHAT I LEARNED
The American Academy of Pediatrics has warned that the effects of social media are bad for the mental health of teenagers and other young people. Not only for young people, for adults even the effects of social media are also similar. In the explanation below, you can learn what the effects of social media are not good for your mental health. What are the effects? Please look carefully at the following explanation.
Understanding the effects of social media on mental health
1. Social media makes addiction
Actually not everyone who plays social media will automatically become addicted. Experts themselves continue to examine the process of changing a person's behavior when playing social media. A study from Nottingham Trent University sought to observe the effects of social media in terms of user behavior.
In short, the researchers concluded that someone is said to be addicted to playing social media if they have reached the stage of ignoring personal interests, a preoccupation to continue scrolling, give a moment of pleasure, and even they lose interest in socializing in the real world. A total of 6 out of 10 people who play social media on average become addictive and can't stand not to open social media every time.
2. Playing social media makes more sad than happy
The more you use social media, the more distant you feel from real happiness. Why is that? One study found that the effects of social media can make a person become dissatisfied in the real life he is living.
This is because more and more here, social media is increasingly becoming a place to show off. Not infrequently, a person who is affected by social media often compares his life with the lives of others.
Another study also looked at what someone's motivation is to upload something on social media. Apparently, according to the study, most people upload photos, videos, or text in order to make themselves look better than others.
3. Many friends on social media guarantee nothing
Several years ago, a study found that there were many friends or friendsfollowers on social media does not always mean you have a better social life too. The effect of this one social media is closely related to loneliness in the real world, inversely proportional to the number of friends obtained on social media.
Not necessarily when you have many friends on social media you will not feel lonely. Loneliness alone can cause mental health problems such as depression and death more quickly.
4. Too often playing social media damages health
Using social media too often not only makes mental disturbance, physical health can also be disturbed. The effects of social media can make sleep patterns disturbed. Most people see the screen handphone which is bright on the bed before they sleep. This makes it difficult for the brain to release the sleep hormone, melatonin, which helps the brain read sleepy signals.
A 2014 study examined adults aged 19 to 32 in the United States who like to play social media such as Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.
The results found that 57 percent of participants in this study reported experiencing sleep disorders as an indirect effect of social media. Lack of sleep can increase the risk of insomnia, fatigue, and even liver cancer.
