SOCIAL MEDIA ADDICTION- PART—01

SOCIAL MEDIA ADDICTION-  PART—01  

What do you do the first thing when you woke up? For many teenagers the answer will be checking  Facebook. Currently,  Facebook is a family of more than two billion active users  and in this case, teenagers  constitute a large portion in this family. Even few years before, the existence of such social media  was completely unknown but  now it is an integral  part of our daily life.  Facebook,  twitter, instagram, snapchat,  linkedin,  pinterst are some of the  popular social networking sites. Nowadays, we can not think of our life without social media. This world of likes, cmments and shares has been embedded in our common sense to such an extent  that anyone who  is not found  in social media might be considered as  unsocial. Though there is age limit , teenagers below the age of thirteen  manage to use it hiding their age. We all know benefits of using social media but there is  also  downside of this media that we often ignore  or may fail to realize. This seems like propaganda against social media that seeks to hold back the  technological  advancement  that has enabled us to communicate from all corners of  earth that is  probably   the most pleasant side of  such social media  for which the founder can  be given credit for  but  as the years rolling on psychologists are discovering  more effects  of social media on our brain.

Teenagers   are  facing  this social media experiment for the first time in history that none of their peers  has gone through. Psychologists  and  social media experts  are carefully ovserving this new phenomena and  many of them have come to conclusion that social media is somewhat detrimental to teenage  psychology and mental development. The American academy of pediatrics  even warned about potential negative  effects of social media in youny  kids and teens, which including cyber bullying named  “ Facebook depression”.

Thomas Kersting wrote a book  named “Disconnected” on how to reconnect our digitally  distracted  kids. In this book he  draw the attention to his research  that he observed increasing number of depression and  anxiety disorder among kids  which he attributed to  the use of smart phone and   social media. (continue reading)

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