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Too much time on social media apps can lead to an increase in body dissatisfaction, eating disorders and low self-esteem. While this is particularly concerning for teen girls, reports show that 46% of teens 13 to 17 years old said social media made them feel worse about their bodies.
1. Depression and Anxiety. Do you spend several hours per day browsing through social media? Spending too long on social networking sites could adversely affect your mood. In fact, chronic social users are more likely to report poor mental health, including symptoms of anxiety and depression. It doesn't take much thinking to figure out why.
While there are some positives, there are also many negative effects of social media use — particularly among young people — including anxiety, depression, reduced sleep quality and emotional disturbances. Using social media more than three times a day has been associated with poor mental health and well-being among young people in particular.
Social media increases privacy risks across the Internet. Social media is a hotbed of privacy risks including but not limited to phishing, data mining, malware sharing, and botnet attacks.
There are both good and bad aspects of staying connected to people on social media. Here are a few of the most common pros and cons.
While some studies have found a link between depression and social media use, there is emerging research into how social media can actually be a force for good.
Why are those effects unevenly distributed among different groups, such as girls or young adults? And can the positives of social media be teased out from the negatives to provide more targeted...
Social media is criticized for being addictive by design and for its role in the spread of misinformation on critical issues from vaccine safety to election integrity, as well as the rise of right-wing extremism.
The pros and cons of social media on mental health. Social media as well as smartphone technology has touched almost all areas of our lives. We order groceries online, video chat with our relatives and stream movies. But it’s also impacting the way we discuss, approach and treat mental health.
What do we really know about the links between social media use and mental health? We spoke with seven experts to find out.