New research reveals how social media platforms like Facebook can greatly affect our mental health.
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Article A systematic review: the influence of social media on depres...
The situation is like, you entered into a shopping mall and get multi-genesis items of multi-brands under uder one roof. It may be you confusing and spend more time to decide the desired one, spend extra money on unnecessary / unplanned shopping, or trapped by replicas or caught by attractive offers etc.
The negative effects of social media on human mental health are caused by an incessant split of virtual and physical reality, i.e. the naturally exsistent human perception bias is amplified and can lead to pathological behavior, with respect to mood control and affective feedbacks.
Social media nowadays represent the main source for knowledge for most people who addicted to use them. People started to ignore books and confidential references and build up their education on what they read in the social media regardless of credibility of these news or information. Most of those news is questionable and lack of sobriety and credibility and express purely personal views. Therefore the audience frequently faced paradoxical ideas that make him/her so depressed.
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Article Effects of Social Media on Mental Health: A Review
If left unchecked, social media can be addictive. It is possible one neglects day to day activities thus creating a host of problems. Additionally with teenagers whose brains are not fully developed they could be influenced by propaganda and may want to outdo their friends in terms of activities that are less than desirable. Excessive use of social media leads to isolation, in a way, and the teen fails to develop socially. All these may lead to anxiety and depression due to low level of problem solving and coping skills.
Some studies suggest that the relationship between online social networking and symptoms of depression may be complex and associated with multiple psychological, social, behavioural, and individual factors.
https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/82192/1/BakerManuscript_v2.pdf
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