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1 Impacts of Social Media on Mental Health Khadija Khan Chamberlain University ENGL148: Advanced English Composition Professor Michelle James February 5, 2023
2 Impacts of Social Media on Mental Health Social media has had such a negative impact that has lead a brother of an influencer murder his sister because of her growing success and her exhibitions. Social media has a bad effect on mental health because it makes individuals suicidal, unhappy, insecure, and egotistical and sets up unattainable ideals. Additionally, promoting conflict and rivalry amongst people, particularly amongst friends and families. Social media can have such a negative impact on mental health, leading one to kill a family member and call it an honor killing. Some individuals who struggle to achieve success with this technology despite their best efforts are psychologically harmed. This can result in sadness, suicidal ideation, and even suicide attempts. To start, lets discuss depression and anxiety correlation with use of social media. A research from Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica states that, “Five types of social networks are the cause of depression and anxiety, these sources include Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Using Snapchat and Instagram had the worst outcome on mental health, YouTube had some positive results” (Ghaemi et al., 2020, p. 357-358). YouTube is a means to earn money in this day and age; Presently, YouTube provides many different videos that society can utilize for several different reasons. For an example, vlogging different activities like shopping, everyday life, tutorials on different skills, and camping videos. Vlogging refers to documentation via video using a recording device creating a log of an event (Tempone, 2021). Camping is used as a way of meditation for some people. Vlogging camping on a daily bases is believed to bring positive impact financially and psycghologically. Just like drawing, painting, and playing sports would for anyone else. YouTube videos can help people learn new things and receive a form of entertainment. Snapchat and Instagram is reported to be more problematic. The Center of Disease Control reported that, “By age eighteen, 45.3% of teens have had sexual intercourse and that much sexual activity is involved in Instagram and Snapchat. It reported that 20% of
3 teens engage in sexting. The pressure most girls get from sex culture influenced boys leads to girls allowing certain things. These studies showed teens involved in a hypersexual culture- with a whopping number of 93% boys and 62% girls being exposed to pornography. 74% of Snapchat photos are selfies not uncommonly of girls in sexualized poses” (Ghaemi et al., 2020, p. 358-359). These cultural norms potentionally lead to mental health problems like anxiety, depression, and a decreased sense of self-esteem. This is a problematic highly sexualized culture. Imagine being a teenager put into this “normal” culture all around you and seeing other teens engage in such activity. Imagine feeling bad about how you look or being put down for not looking a certain way. Sometimes teens are being forced to do something because of pressure from peers and feeling a sense of wanting to belong to a group. This leads to being quiet and not speaking up. Hence, depression and anxiety occurs. Peer pressure can be a good thing but for those who follow and usually are not natural born leaders participate in risky behaviors and activities (Scripps, 2019). Such behavior results in many social media users experiencing cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is bullying but give it a twist and make it online. If a teenager is facing bullying in person, such as at school, there’s a chance it will follow them home as well. Cyber bullying became a term that was used back in 1998 (Maryville University, 2019). This term coined abusive and aggressive behaviors that occurred online. “According to the National Center for Education Statistics, 20.2% percent of all students have reported experience with some kind of bullying” (Maryville University, 2019). Constant critisicm and words to hurt you- something as little as a comment on a social media post can impact a person’s overall mental health and course of how their day goes. Not only that, but threats to one’s life or social status and reputation. Cyberbullying, just like any type of prolonged and constant bullying, can lead to decline in mental stability and self-esteem and further leading to self harm and suicide. If there was more supervision over youth using social media, this could possibly be prevented. Statistically, according to the studies evaluated by National Institution of Mental Health
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