Social Media And Mental Health

Worst Apps for Your Mental Health

Social media is a new experience for the human being. With social networks People are becoming more deep-rooted in people’s lives each year and in each generation, it is very important that we understand the full impact of social media on our mental health and social lives.

In a survey, the ages of 14-24, their findings offered a clear picture of how social media platforms affect mentally including anxiety, depression, sleep deprivation, and body-image.

Instagram

Instagram has most negative effect on young people’s mental health. The popular photo sharing app badly impacts body image and sleep, increases bullying and “FOMO” (fear of missing out), and that leads to greater feelings of anxiety, depression, and loneliness.

Positive Effect - The positive effects of Instagram include self-expression, self-identity, community building, and emotional support.

Facebook 

Facebook also have similar negative effects of Facebook in the categories of bullying, FOMO, body image, anxiety, depression, and loneliness. Facebook also has a very bad impact on sleep.

Positive effect- Facebook have some strong positive effects of emotional support and community building, promoting informative content.

YouTube

YouTube have a major downside that it has the most negative effect on sleep

Positive Effect- positive effect on mental health of YouTube. The video streaming platform had a very high in this categories like awareness, self-expression, and community building and it is one of the most informative platform where million of people learning as well earing hard money . 

Why Social media are important?

Connect with loved ones. Social media is a great way to stay in touch with your friends and family, whether they live nearby or across the globe. Use your social media channels to reach out and see how your loved ones are doing, share personal stories and photos and remind you of the important people in your life.

Follow and share inspiring stories. Follow and shareing inspiring stories that make you feel more confident and positive toward your life. 

Make community impact videos. Organize projects that can positively impact your community