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Final Project Soc 112 Introduction to Sociology Professor Elizabeth Ferns Chris Cogan 2/19/2023

The topic that was chosen is social media and its effect on mental health. Social media has changed our way of life. Society now spends their free time on our mobile phones or computers using social media to get our news, entertainment, and sports. This has created new jobs and income streams. There is a dark side to social media. Experts show that 10% of people in the U.S. have social media addiction. Like any addiction, it can negatively impact your life. Using social media increases dopamine signals in your brain. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter associated with pleasure. When using social media your brain associates this as rewarding behavior that you should repeat. However, this is only temporary, so you keep going back to social media for the feeling of pleasure (Cherney, 2020). The number of people using social media sites has doubled since 2008. Facebook had more than one billion active users in October 2012 (McIntyre, 2014). Social media is used to connect to our families and friends. People are constantly updating their status on Facebook, looking up information on Twitter and Instagram, and following the latest trends on Tik Tok. People are constantly comparing themselves to others to help them understand themselves. Social media has many benefits, but studies show that it also can cause depression (Liu & Ma, 2018). Social media has changed how we interact with each other. We now connect over Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram instead of calling. People are now texting more than talking on the phone. People average texting 26 minutes per day versus calling 21 minutes per day (Vujasin, 2021). Social Media has many impacts on our mental health. These can also be seen in how they affect our society. The first way it has an impact is through our cultural beliefs. A cultural belief that can be affected by social media is the economy. Social media has changed our way of

advertising before social media you paid for advertising. Now every person is their own brand, and it is easier to connect to people (Quora, 2017). Since social media uses large groups of users there can be a subjective bias from information overload, cultural preferences, and shared values (Carrascosa et al., 2015). All these factors in our economic system and biases can affect social media users. This can be a bias that affects your personal brand based on your ethnicity, gender, or age. A good example of this is someone of Hispanic ethnicity may have problems selling their personal brand to someone who is Caucasian. The next aspect of sociology that this can affect is our social roles. One key role of social media is social media influencers. Social media influencers can direct individuals purchasing decisions, social media users purchase certain items or wear specific brands of clothes (Geyser, 2023) This can have a negative effect on social media users since they will feel swayed to purchase something that they may not need. A second social role would be a social media addict. Addiction affects our jobs, families, and interaction with friends. Social media addicts have issues with lack of sleep, feeling of envy, lack of depth in relationships, a higher tendency to seek approval, failure to meet deadlines, poor work quality, and distraction from work (Priyadarshini et al., 2019). Social media can be a great tool, however, when overused it can affect issues with our social relationships. It could lead to poor job performance or issues with how we raise our children or issues with our friends. Social media addiction is affected by some social inequalities. Studies have shown that adolescents from lower incomes have higher rates of social media addiction. This can also be worse in schools where students have a larger greater wealth disparity (Collins, 2022). Young adults are most affected by social media addiction. 15% of people aged 23-38 admit to being addicted to social media ( Social Media Addiction Statistics: Who Is Addicted and What Are the

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Consequences? , 2023). Both display how social media affects mental health in both lower income children and young adults, social media is having a negative through addiction. Finally, social media can affect our social conditions. Social media addiction has not been shown to affect performance in school; however, it does cause lower self-esteem and poorer health ( Effects of Social Networking Services on Academic. . . : Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care , n.d.). People with social media addiction show they get poor sleep and tend to have more mental health issues ( Social Media Addiction Statistics: Who Is Addicted and What Are the Consequences? , 2023). Lower self-esteem can impact our relationships with others, it can cause someone to be more reserved and less social. Getting poor sleep and having mental health issues can also affect how we interact with others.

References Acar, I. H., Avcılar, G., Yazıcı, G., & Bostancı, S. (2020). The roles of adolescents’ emotional problems and social media addiction on their self-esteem. Current Psychology , 41 (10), 6838–6847. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-020-01174-5 Cherney, K. (2020, August 6). What Is Social Media Addiction? Healthline. https://www.healthline.com/health/social-media-addiction Collins, C. (2022, December 24). New Study Links Poverty With Social Media Addiction . SciTechDaily. https://scitechdaily.com/new-study-links-poverty-with-social-media- addiction/ Effects of social networking services on academic. . . : Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care . (n.d.). LWW. https://journals.lww.com/jfmpc/Fulltext/2022/10000/Effects_of_social_networking_servi ces_on_academic.53.aspx Geyser, W. (2023, January 11). What is an Influencer? – Social Media Influencers Defined [Updated 2023] . Influencer Marketing Hub. https://influencermarketinghub.com/what-is- an-influencer/ Liu, C., & Ma, J. (2018). Social media addiction and burnout: The mediating roles of envy and social media use anxiety. Current Psychology , 39 (6), 1883–1891. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-018-9998-0

McIntyre, K. (2014). The Evolution of Social Media from 1969 to 2013: A Change in Competition and a Trend Toward Complementary, Niche Sites. Social Media and Society , 3 (2). https://thejsms.org/index.php/JSMS/article/view/89 Miguel Carrascosa, J., Cuevas, R., Gonzalez, R., Azcorra, A., & Garcia, D. (2015, July 31). Quantifying the Economic and Cultural Biases of Social Media through Trending Topics . National Library of Medicine. Retrieved January 29, 2023, from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4521871/ Priyadarshini, C., Dubey, R. K., Kumar, Y. L. N., & Jha, R. (2019). Impact of Social Media Addiction on Employees’ Wellbeing and Work Productivity. The Qualitative Report . https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2020.4099 Quora. (2017, August 2). How Does Social Media Influence The Economy? Forbes. Retrieved January 29, 2023, from https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/08/02/how-does-social- media-influence-the-economy/?sh=3db48b9244d0 Social Media Addiction Statistics: Who Is Addicted And What Are The Consequences? (2023, January 19). SearchLogistics. https://www.searchlogistics.com/grow/statistics/social- media-addiction-statistics/ Vujasin, M. (2021, June 27). Why Do People Rather Text Than Talk? Paldesk. https://www.paldesk.com/why-do-people-rather-text-than-talk/

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