Question

Debate on social media and its effect ..
I am against it

Answer 1

Many of the psychological and emotional challenges associated with social media can be profoundly damaging for all age groups. This phenomenon can be attributed to two related factors.

Social media users often feel compelled to portray themselves in the most positive light possible, which may not reflect reality.People may feel inadequate compared to the 'Facebook version' of their peers, the latter of which is unrealistically positive due to the first factor.

Combined with the desire to validate your existence through the online currency of 'likes' and positive feedback, these two factors can cause envy and lead to depression.

Frequent users of social media have been found to be 2.7 times more susceptibleto depression compared to users who use such sites less frequently. This connection with feelings of depression is most closely related to "surveillance use" of social networks, wherein users frequently check on what their peers are doing and finding their own real lives to be not as good by comparison.