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Firstly, there have been significant links between our online presence and other aspects of our mental health, which has inspired the subject matter of many recent research studies around the world. There are many psychological and physical factors that affect our mental well-being due to the impact of social media. Depression and Body Dysmorphia being the leading causes, due to the content the individuals are exposed to while online. Even though researchers coined the correlation between social media use and depression as complex. Data was collected from a sample of 340 first year college students, and the findings were that the increase use of Facebook have been associated with higher levels of loneliness. Also the extensive use of Facebook has been associated with higher rates of disordered eating and body image insecurity.

Social media has connected us in unimaginable ways, and introduced us to a world much larger than our humble backyards. Nowadays, nearly everyone has a Facebook, an Instagram, or a Twitter account. Grandparents, teenagers, children, and even some pets are a part of one social network or another. While websites like Facebook are great for sharing pictures, stories, and interests, but they are also capable of raising awareness about important issues that may have been overlooked. Recently, the overuse of Facebook was thought to promote negative psychology well-being, including depression and loneliness. It 's safe to say that the world has become hopelessly addicted to social media. Plenty of people can 't make it through the day or in extreme cases a few hours without popping on their computers or scrolling through their smart phones to check the newsfeed on Facebook. As Stephen Marche says in his article, "Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?”, Facebook makes us miserable and lonely. In fact, even though there is evidence showing that we 're more detached or lonely than ever because given Facebook is about social relationships; however, the site also offers an extraordinary number of ways to connect with others. This is just a taste of what Facebook can do, and with a huge number of people utilizing them, its possibilities are only growing. Facebook does not replace real human relationship or create loneliness, but it does not exterminate it either. It all depends on ones usage.

Everyone agrees that social media has changed the way we connect with the world, but research shows it might be doing harm to our mental health.

Over the past few years, social media has grown to be one of the best forms of entertainment in our generation. Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook are all different types social media networks and they are used by many people all over the world. Although, social media is a way to network and meet new people from many places, and it is an easy way to contact people and stay in touch, it changes the way how people interact with each other, suicide, and depression. Before social media was invented, people were able to meet new people in person instead of behind a keyboard, but now “people have turned to hiding behind social media platforms”(McGauran). Social media takes the fun out of life because instead of doing things in real-life such as meeting different people, going to different places, and hanging with friends, people rather post videos of themselves on Snapchat, Facebook, and Instagram for likes and attention.

Within recent years the Internet and computer technology have made great advancements, allowing for the age of social media to be born and subsequently shaped into what it is today. Social media has become so largely desirable to modern day society due to its large and easy accessibility amongst citizens. However, social networking sites such as Facebook have been found to have negative impacts on individual’s social and psychological well being including things such as basic empathetic social skills1 (Chan 2014). Social awareness and the ability to communicate with one another makes up the crux of what it means to have social well-being. However, through the often anti social aspect of social media, physiological issues and issues of social well-being are being brought to light through research and studies investigating the truly negative effects of social media. Some of the risk that are highlighted through research into the effects of social media includes the risks of addiction, ‘Facebook depression’, ‘sexting’, cyber bullying and online harassments as well as associated privacy risks of all forms of social media2 (O’Keefe 2011).

Social networking has turned the world into a small but global village. Now it’s easy to connect with people from all over the world, people from Far East like China can interact with others from the United States in real time virtually. Platforms like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and many more are the mean of social networking; however social media developed an addiction and overuse that caused unwanted distraction from reality and social life with people. Once it was a healthy escape from life’s problem. Now it’s a problem to life itself, at least people life relationships. Social networking once was a great tool to establish and maintain relationships with friends, family and even strangers sharing similar interests. But unfortunately it can backfire

Since the beginning of social media in the early 2000s, people have been linking ties with one another through it. Be it long lost friends, or long lost family members, social media has proved to be a great source when it comes to reuniting people across the world. The boom in social media outlets such as Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and the like has caused a drift in how society views the effects of such interaction on people’s mental health, however. On one end of the spectrum, some believe that social media has greatly benefited them by being an outlet for them to better express themselves. Boosts in confidence and self-esteem have been attributed to social media’s wonders. Yet, on the other side of the spectrum, social media is viewed as a rather dark force that has taken over and caused many a disturbance in people’s self-esteem and overall mental health.

Recently, researchers have resorted to the study of the psychological impacts of social media of social media to people. Some of the findings have been positive such as boosting self-esteem and the relaxation of the mind. However, some researchers have recently associated the use of social media to several disorders which are psychiatric in nature for example anxiety and depressive symptoms (Pantic, 2014). Being quite a new

92% of teens report going online daily and 71% of teens use more than one social network site. (Lenhart) Social media has provided us with various lines of connection. Never before have the emotions and musings of other individuals been more accessible to the rest of the population; we have access to original theories, prose, and art without having paid, in many cases, a cent in exchange for that accessibility. I would never argue that this form of connection is meaningless; nevertheless, I do believe that it is not the most significant form of association. Just as any other mammal, humans have a need to interact with others of their kind in order to evolve individually into socially capable beings. The form by which we manage to meet these needs has been drastically altered by social media and has proven to have several negative aspects.

To conclude my paper. Social media is a type of networking that many people from around the world use to keep in touch with their family, friends, and other peers every day. Every year, social media gains about one billion users. It can be very fun and easy to use, but it can have a negative impact on our mental health and how we communicate with

Social media like Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat are few examples of modern technology and are used by billions of people around the globe. Today social networking sites playing important role in our life. However the use, may be excessive use, of Facebook might be harmful to us to some extent. A study conducted by University of Michigan researchers claimed that “Facebook causes depression”(Kross 2). Facebook use predicts declines in subjective well-being instead of enhancing it. It is generally believed that socialization is good for psychological health. In fact this is true subject to some pre-set criteria. But socialization through Facebook is harmful. The study is the first published research that examined influence of Facebook on young adults. The focus was how happy they are and how satisfied with their lives over time. They researchers claimed that the more people used Facebook during one time period, the worse they subsequently felt. On the surface, Facebook provides communication tools for fulfilling the basic human need for social connection. But instead of enhancing human well-being these findings suggest that Facebook undermine it.

Social media is a part of society as water is to life. Without the use of social media there would be a world of close friendships and face to face communication. “It’s estimated that by 2018, 2.44 billion people will be using social networks, up from 970,000 in 2010” (Guzman). Imagine not having social media to communicate with friends and family. Think about having to have a face to face conversation instead. “We use it for every part of our lives- in our personal relationships, for entertainment, at work and in our studies… every minute we collectively send more than 30 million messages on Facebook and almost 350,000 tweets” (Guzman). Social media is becoming an increasing problem throughout society, taking away face to face communication, effecting relationships, and causing a negative effect on mental health.

Social media is a part of society as water is to life. Without the use of social media there would be a world of close friendships and face to face communication. “It’s estimated that by 2018, 2.44 billion people will be using social networks, up from 970,000 in 2010” (Guzman). Imagine not having social media to communicate with friends and family. Think about having to have a face to face conversation instead. “We use it for every part of our lives- in our personal relationships, for entertainment, at work and in our studies… every minute we collectively send more than 30 million messages on Facebook and almost 350,000 tweets” (Guzman). Social media is becoming an increasing problem throughout society, taking away face to face communication, effecting relationships, and causing a negative effect on mental health.

Social media like Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat are few examples of modern technology and are used by billions of people around the globe. Today social networking sites playing important role in our life. However the use, may be excessive use, of Facebook might be harmful to us to some extent. A study conducted by University of Michigan researchers claimed that “Facebook causes depression”(Kross 2). Facebook use predicts declines in subjective well-being instead of enhancing it. It is generally believed that socialization is good for psychological health. In fact this is true subject to some pre-set criteria. But socialization through Facebook is harmful. The study is the first published research that examined influence of Facebook on young adults. The focus was how happy they are and how satisfied with their lives over time. They researchers claimed that the more people used Facebook during one time period, the worse they subsequently felt. On the surface, Facebook provides an invaluable resource for fulfilling the basic human need for social connection. Rather than enhancing well-being, however, these findings suggest that Facebook may undermine it.

Do you recall your way of living preceding the invention of the Internet? Can you remember how you drew out necessary information concerning studies, weather patterns, or directions? More pressing, how did you have access to the where-abouts and status’ of your closest four hundred friends? While social networking has become an essential tool in modern day life, our dependence on the Internet has proven itself flawed in that it leads to the increase of adolescences’ diagnosed with depression. An ever increasing number of studies has examined this phenomenon in search of a correlation between social networking and depression in children maturing into adulthood. According to Guralnik (1984), depression is defined as “a psychoneurotic or psychotic disorder marked especially by sadness, inactivity, difficulty in thinking and concentration, a significant increase or decrease in appetite and time spent sleeping, feelings of dejection and hopelessness, and sometimes suicidal tendencies.” (p.395). A social network is an online interaction service which manages to construct communities and connect them with shared interests (Boyd & Ellison, 2007). Social networking sites such as Tumblr, Facebook, and Twitter attract millions of users who have incorporated these networks into their daily practices. Some of these sites cater to diverse viewers while others integrate people based on similarities such as a shared language or nationality. Last year, Facebook passed an average of 1.23