Social Media Addiction

What are my perspectives towards Social Media Addiction? Nowadays, over 3.5 billion people from around the world are part of social media users. This is approximately 46 percent of the whole world population. The top social platforms with the most active users are Facebook, YouTube and Whatsapp (DataReportal – Global Digital Insights, 2019). According to the amount of people who take part in social media, it is now becomes one of the most powerful way of mass communication. Therefore social media can create significant impacts to those who are using it in both positives and negatives way. People often do not recognise how much social media may affect their life in a bad way. The survey found that general social media users usually spend 10 to 20 minutes on an applications after attending it. In each application they keep visiting back and forth more than 10 times per day in order to update what is going on around them (Study Finds, 2019). Anything that requires a lot of time are ...

Further Investigation Sources  What is Social Media and How it is important ? This website will give readers an idea of what exactly is social media , how social media is being used for other purposes such as media marketing, online retailers  and sales. Moreover, it will also give some idea about how retailer benefits from using social media. What makes people addicted to Social Media ? This website is informing the amount of people using social media daily. They are also mentioning factors like Social Validation and Fear of Missing Out which likely to be part of the reason why people keep returning  back in social media usually once per hour. Tips to stop wasting time online This website is actually giving an idea of 5 important things people tend to miss out when they spent too much time on social media for example, an opportunity to improve the quality of friendship, a romantic relationship with your partner and time to explore the worl...

Does Social Media influences on Body Image? The study investigated that social media influenced more than 1200 adolescents body image and body changing strategies such as gaining weight, increase muscle and reducing weight. This investigation was done on females and males, the results came out that females tend to make use of body changing strategies seeing through social media accordingly in order to lose weight. On the other hand, males were more focusing in gaining their weight to have more muscle. Moreover, the researchers claimed that by focusing in losing and gaining weight, females and males would require to have a limited amount of food which can impacts on their body structure in both negative and positive ways. For example, after perceiving a new knowledge about dietary through social media, without any consideration if it is reliable or not a woman decided to stop consuming rice immediately as she wanted to lose weight but this is leading to nutrition insufficient...

The Effects of Social Media Addiction  According to the research, they believe that the group which tend to cause the most addiction in social media is adolescents. As people between this age often use their electronic devices such as computers, mobile phones and tablets to further their studies and update their life or sharing what they like on social media. However, they usually do not realise that there are negative effects of social media that can decrease their efficiency in both physical and academical fields. For instance, privacy exposure where someone is trying to reveal personal documents to public or internet harassment where people are disturbing them all day through real time notifications. At this stage, teenagers will not be able to fully focus on their studies. Moreover, scrolling through social media sites seeing some violence videos, adolescents may imitate what they have seen such as hurting themselves, poisoning others for no reason and behaving violently ...

What are the Family Problems regarding Social Media Addiction ? Lack of family members interaction Losing interpersonal relationship skills Decreasing the feeling of safety within the family unit Children are lack of warmth and affection Children may try to get attention by performing aggressive behaviour At the present time, parents tend to focus more about their business without enough caring on their children which leads to less interaction between family members. As they usually think the more money they make the best life they can afford for their kids. What even worse is that some parents are remote employees where they work all day at home by using electronic devices and they could not separate time for their family members. Moreover, working through electronic devices parents are often get distracted by online commercials For example, " 50% discount in all items buy now! " This attraction may extend a time spending on social media which ...

Addicted to Social Media may cause Health Problems  These days adolescents tend to spend a lot of time on social media , some of them prefer to gain attention from online communication so that they can benefit by making more money such as selling their products effectively. These people will keep track their feedbacks from customers daily for new development. However, due to a high expectation in online communication, if there is not enough responding of customers this group of people can end up desperate. Example of Health Problems   Hyperactivity Disorder Depression and Anxiety  Cyber Bullying  Suicide Rate Sleep Problems It is reported that health problems mentioned above are likely caused by using too much social media. The research found that scrolling in Facebook everyday could lead to depression if a person is seeing some post which is emotional. Moreover, the violence showing in the media can influence people to imitate those bad behavi...