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         Social Media Vs Mental Health

 

Connecting with other people and sharing ideas are a human instinct. From the beginning of time,when cavemen first discovered inventions like the wheel it was the start of a revolutionary way to advance society. Evolution is what drives humans to create technology, study species and build efficient civilizations. As evolution occurs and life spreads to every corner of the earth ideas,experiences and beliefs start to change and differ from others. Hence the reason for social media. Social Media was created as a world wide bulletin board for expressing yourself, connecting with new and old people,educating and various other uses. The very first social media, after the creation of the internet,was Six Degree created in 1997 and named after the six degrees of separation theory that every living creature is six steps away from another. Six Degree laid the groundwork for Social Media giants like Facebook. Furthermore, facebook is newer and has the ability to adapt to the needs of communication and growing technology allowing it to be a viable platform. As society grows farther away from tradition communication and rely on social media platforms, the correlation between adverse effects to one’s mental health begin to grow.

First of all, Social Media is addictive. It may not be addicting like smoking or drinking but, it has a subconscious psychological grip on your brain; especially on generation born into the new era of technology. Suren Ramasubbu Entrepreneur, startup founder, and technology strategist, States “15 and 19 year olds spend at least 3 hours per day on average using platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram 28 percent of iPhone users check their Twitter feed before they get out of bed in the morning”.Now for all the people that have iphones in the world  28% is huge, and with that being said it doesn’t account for users who don’t have iphones but an android instead. The people who wake up and check their social media rises. Well in a sense that doesn’t prove it’s addicting . The signs of addiction become evident with time and usage.

Social Media has grown to an unbelievably big platform with so much more than just sharing leading to after effects. Some effects are not easily reversible.According to Alice G. Walton a PhD holder in biopsychology and contributor to forbes magazine, states “addiction criteria, such as neglect of personal life, mental preoccupation, escapism, mood modifying experiences, tolerance and concealing the addictive behavior, appear to be present in some people who use [social networks] excessively”. Much like diagnosable addictive disorders, social media users have the same characteristics. There life may evolve around social media or progressively develop into it and social media to reality.

Well, what makes social media so addicting? The obvious answer would be entertainment. When a person isn’t doing anything they tend to want to find something to stimulant them. With the vast and endless entertaining and videos that get shared on social media sites it’s only a matter of time. Scientifically speaking, Once again Suren Ramasubbu explains “In terms of neuroscience, the “dorsomedial prefrontal cortex”, the part of the brain that engages in social interaction, creates empathy to other people’s thoughts and feelings, and help us make judgements about other people. Such judgements are vital– the speed of judging if “the man with a spear will throw the spear at me” has been the reason we exist today, and any activity that engages the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex is perceived as being important and thus non-optional. The fact that social media sites engage the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex could be a reason for the natural proclivity to social media compulsive use”. Facebook and platforms alike are literally technological extensions of our brain. It becomes addicting because the human brain craves social interaction with people in all shapes and forms. Memes, videos, other peoples conversation, foods and ideas all play into social interaction. The more social aspects placed together the more psychologically addictive it is.

Furthermore, addiction and social dependance are just the beginning. The use of social media platforms unintentionally effect well-being. With interactions such as cyber-bullying or neglect it tends to hurt receiving negativity. For instance, it’s easier to get rejected by people you know, but because social media is on a global scale negative comments are magnified and amplifies that harsh feeling..

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“She said I’m the only one she talks to and then she said April fools 😪💔”

 

This post was oddly posted for likes , so I posted it for attention. It was a joke At this point in life i just wanted to get likes on all my post and get facebook famous. I wanted everyone to see it and share it . Much like they do today.

I wanted my audience which was literally all of the world to laugh and like my post. I wanted comments adds and shares.

I believe the reason I didn’t post it on any other outlet because i didn’t have any other social that i had a lot of friends or followers on. On instagram i wouldn’t have gotten all the likes and shares.

i added emojis to act as if i was sad but i definitely was not . I never really add hashtags and those things , iv’e always felt like it was extra.

I knew that on facebook people posted dumb stuff on their wall for people to laugh at. I think before i posted i sat and pondered on a status to make for April fools day just for likes. A day like April fools was the perfect set up to get likes . Plus I didn’t have much family on facebook at the time so i wasn’t worried about them seeing

The only person i could think of that i wouldn’t want to see it is probably the girl i was talking to. If she saw she’d probably think i was talking to more girls than just her because she didn’t say that. Looking back at it today i just laugh , i was always hilarious. Also seeing it now I probably should’ve gotten more likes than i got . Continue reading