Social Media Impact

Currently social media covers more than 2 billion people worldwide in some way. In other words, many individuals around the world are vulnerable in some way. On the one hand, social media is the evolution of its positive influence, on the other hand, the relationship with the surrounding people is often affected, so there is also a certain negative impact. Social media is part of our daily life

People who are actively involved in health - social media network workers have a 18% chance of going to the gym, visiting the health club, or doing some form of exercise.

It gives us access to the world through our fingertips and brings tremendous change in the way we communicate, shop, learn and experience. On the contrary, just as there are two aspects of every coin, social media also has the following hidden dangers:

Things distracting - People around the world are dissatisfied with their appearance by advertising various brands and fashion brands.

Problem of body image - occurrence of problem of body image between people. It is thin with the promotion of various brands and fashion shops

Cyber ​​bully - Sending annoying or intimidating text, ridiculing others' social network profile, or shouting, harassing on social networking platform through repeated messaging, sending pornography

According to the published research, "Social media is related to loneliness, embarrassment, anxiety, depression, self-love, and a decline in social skills" (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/social -medias-impact- -self-esteem_us_58ade038e4b0d818c4f0a4e4) As a person who grew up in the digital age, I can see that social media has an adverse effect on self-esteem. Removing Dopamine's likes and dislikes and comments on posting to social media is addictive and may affect how we evaluate ourselves based on the responses we received. If the post does not get enough positive feedback, we will automatically think about what we did. Is not this fun? Is not it good looking? Is my performance not as good as I expected? We will cherish the opinion of others, not ourselves.

The impact of social media is not only physical and psychological, but also social. In addition to productivity and focus, look at the great negative impact of social media on democracy over the past few years. When scrolling through social media, these systems eliminate mandatory triggers that tend to exacerbate our prejudice rather than giving knowledge and intelligence. Technology companies are competing for how much time they spend on their products and how often they are checked. Our users are their main resource. You can use Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat etc for free, but those people still need to eat. To earn money, these companies sell the data they collected about us and their users, and sell it to advertisers and other third parties.