HOW SOCIAL MEDIA AFFECTING US!!!

INTRODUCTION TO BAD EFFECT OF SOCIAL MEDIA.

Meta and Snap Sued Over Social Media ‘Addicted’ Girl’s Suicide.

18-year-old beaten up after row over uploading video on social media in Gurgaon.

Unfortunately, the horrible effects of media are all too real for a lot of us and you can see the above news, yes, this news comes under the negative consequences of social media.
Exaggerated use of anything is harmful to our mental, physical and emotional health. you must have experienced toxic behavior by people and
By analyzing various aspects of this issue I summarise this blog. You can completely rely on this article, need four months to complete. You are free to hover over the article and choose what you want read. So let's get started then.

Study shows that we spend an average of 2 hours daily on social media just by scrolling.

WHAT’S MAKE YOU USE SOCIAL MEDIA?

Social media platforms are invented for your attention But, much like gambling or an addiction to alcohol, or drugs, social media use can build psychological hunger. Just see how many times you checked your phone. It’s how the companies earn money. When you obtain a like, a share, or a reaction, it triggers the discharge of dopamine in your brain, the same as getting chocolate or cigarette for example. The more you’re feeling this thrilled, the more time you want to spend on social media, even if it becomes harmful to your life.

See, for instance, When we upload pictures on social media our mind is very vulnerable about peoples opinions but we say, "we don't care if they like me or not!" but that is not the case we care too much."Ohh!!! I get LIKE "or "ohh!! I didn't get tagged in their photos", like this, unknowingly we search for feedbacks of strangers and that how you start to get addicted.

What consumes your mind, controls your life

THE SOCIAL MEDIA AND MENTAL HEALTH-

Human beings are social creatures. We need others to grow in life, and the stability of our relations has a large influence on our mental health and joy. Being socially connected to others can

1. minimize anxiety and depression,
2. increase  self-worth,
3. provide relief and joy,
4. prevent loneliness.

On the other side, lacking strong public connections can stand a significant threat to your mental and emotional health, and as a student always build connection, as popular saying, "More the network, more will be net worth"(random).
I insist you, watch social dilemma, a Netflix documentary or you can watch TEDx of Tristan Harris.
If you wanna read -

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=social+media&oq=social+#d=gs_qabs&u=%23p%3D-ERRV8f07-IJ.

Netflix CEO said our biggest enemies are Facebook google and sleep.

SOCIAL MEDIA AFFECT YOUR MENTAL HEALTH WHEN YOU-

• Waste more time on social media rather uses it in the real world.
• Compare the lifestyle of others to yours.
• Always distracted at work.
• PUT Zero time for self-realization.
• Do weird and risky things to boost your likes.
• getting anxiety and depression.

And that is just a tip of an iceberg and now to the crucial part

HARMFUL EFFECT OF SOCIAL MEDIA-

• first of all, social media affect cognition(the process by which knowledge and understanding are developed in the mind.

• Outside of the rise-fall of your dopamine levels, hurt your thinking functions.

• Forgot life without phones.

• West of time.

• Anti-social behavior

• Ignorant

• Addicted to phone and internet

• Affecting ability to develop strong interpersonal relationships.  These are the characteristics of those media bugs. any comment box of a popular someone sees how toxic the kids and under the age of 18 are.

• spending too much time joining with media gives rise to you feeling more lonely and isolated—and mental health problems such as anxiety and depression.

• Inadequacy about your power or appearance

• Fear of missing out (FOMO).

• Cyberbullying

• Self-absorption.

• Many of us use social media as a “security blanket”

• To give you an example you must have seen those people who scroll their phones at a party, gathering, or marriage even in their marriage.

• it can become addictive and be a negative, or destructive influence.

• we change our views without knowing facts, in marketing,  One in three consumers is influenced by social media.

It's a world itself, everyone has opinions likes, and dislikes. with a more good-looking, happier living life that you only dream and you saw it assume their lives are so great then I must be suck cause I don't possess such thing So you set the benchmark on how you look and behave however you have no clue how depressed they are in real life.

Many companies hire engineers,  who know about gambling and stuff  .their job is to make the app pp as addictive as possible. They know they causing cavities in the world. They put to useless of the useless thing in your mind, in which world you bring help by knowing "they got a divorce" or who hates who and "she gets plastic surgery" but this works reason 'MIT research shows that fake news spread 6 times faster than the real news on Twitter

Our entire generation lends entry to dopamine stimulating and mind-numbing stuff through social media at the high-stress moment they never ask for help they straight run towards social media for temporary relief.

Then you'll say,  "hmm, but my mom also chatters more than I do but she is not even on Instagram, what's the difference?"

It's a HUGE DIFFERENCE, she is on phone and you are on a platform on which there is 1000 designer who knows your psychology, and knows what you gonna clicks next. little spooky, right?

THE POSITIVE FACTORS OF SOCIAL MEDIA-

Yes, there are too many benefits also,
Social media lets you:

Join or promote beneficial motives; bring up attention on issues.
Find new friends and societies; network with other people who share similar interests.
Communicate and stay up to date with family and friends around the world.
Want or offer personal support during harsh periods.
Find a crucial social connection if you live in a remote area or have limited independence, social anxiety.
Find an opening for your creativity and self-expression.
Discover (with care) sources of valuable information and learning
I completed the coding course which in reality cost up to 14k to 15k.
With keeping this positive factor in mind, we should handle social media by following ways

THEN HOW TO USE SOCIAL MEDIA-

1. spend less time online( And for that)

• Switch off the phone for some time

• Don’t take your phone bed.

• Disable notifications

• Struggle to eliminate social media apps

1. : Change your priority

• Ask yourself questions like

• Are you using social media as a relief for real life

• Are you a strong or an inactive user on social media?

• Does social media leave you feeling insufficient or unhappy about your life?

• If there is yes, then it's time change priority

1. Spend extra time offline

• Step out sometime in a week.

• If you're ignoring your friend then reach out to them.

• Join any club.

• If you don't have a friend or anyone known, interact with a stranger then.

• Step 4:show gratitude

• Take time for thinking.

• Exercise mindfulness

• Enroll in Helping a child with toxic social media use.

SOLUTION FOR SOCIAL MEDIA-

instead of practicing colonization on another planet, we can fix THIS one. most dangerous things aren't in the future but under over nose right now. if we see, This is the root for every other problem. The Internet makes and breaks your life at the same time.
So your answer to this question depends on how you prefer to interact with it. I think as you receive age, social media comes to be limited about your self-image and more about a valuable way of keeping in touch with the world and your friends/family .modify habits but it's a short time.

Now, business companies or manufacturing companies, need a lot of top time to grow but on the other side companies like Tiktok and YouTube becomes billion-dollar companies in a year reason is YOUR ATTENTION. to clarify, at the start we are earning money by agriculture labeled as agriculture economy then we enter into the industrial economy and now we are in the attention economy. Everyone needs your attention even the politicians and many big companies. nowadays attention is money reason, you get manipulated by their opinions then you are just a moneymaker for them.
To tackle this technological issue we need new technology. a technology that is not constructed for our attention, which can diminish our online usage and drastically reduce its effect.

more on that nfts and metaverse will be in future ,whole fictional world. leave a comment and I'll put down another article on that.  

ABOUT THIS BLOG-

I wrote this blog cause I am concerned when I see a person mindlessly post snaps of his family's dead or Make videos of one in accidents and taking likes or Spread fake news of the death.

#OPINION

I never come on social media on my will(i downloaded what app and linked in three months ago.) And still, my friend's complaint is I am not online or be on insta, twitter, snap chat, Facebook...
I'll maybe in the future but right now it doesn't make any necessity to me(it's my opinion plz don't get offended ).
social media is a relatively very new technology, I get dreadful when we have the greatest tool of mankind ever imagined but we forgot it's a tool and made IT SOUL purposes.
Let me know your thought on this and suggest to me a topic you want to be read more,
Control your habits cause that's exhilarating.

THANKS FOR READING,

connect me on linkedin-https://www.linkedin.com/in/piyush-mahajan-146860229/