Nowadays, social media is a part of our daily life. We pass our many times in doing social media, like Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter Instagram Snapchat and many more. Yes, it is true that social media is the entertainment of our daily life.

But it is also true that we spend our valuable times social media, while we can do many more things, but we do not do any type of things and spending our valuable time in doing or scrolling Instagram or Facebook. Using system media, we need our smartphones, or any PC with Internet connection. So while using social media, it also affect us in physically and mentally also.

It is notice that depression is the part of a daily life in people. Among 90% of people are in depression in this world now. Many people says that they are in depress due to their work or studies, or any other things. But it is not so quite true. Because if we pass back about 10 years ago, when there is no social media, that in peoples are not so in depression.

But many people says that they reduce the depression by using social media. Yeah, it’s made quite right as they use the social media for inductive. Social media takes a big role of depression also. Because when we enjoying in social media, we uses our phone. So and our eyes always applicated with the lie switch come from phone screen. And the Internet radius on which directly affected to our brain, And that caused our mental issues. And that’s why how social media affect our mental health. In this article, we will discuss about it.

Distract Yourself From the Distraction

Yes, it is very much true that social media is a distraction. But You think how we discharge yourself from the destruction. Let us take an example. Let if you are in trouble. So if you want to distract yourself, you can hear music or playing games like a cricket, football, or watching TVS. But while doing this,

if you get any type of message from WhatsApp, Instagram or Facebook, then and there you start chatting, and it will distract you from the other words, which distract yourself from your trouble. And while. And while doing odds and hours in social media, you distract from everything, and your trouble increased. Let’s say we call it distract you from a others distraction.

The positive aspects of social media

There are not only negative feedback from social media, but there are also many positive in social media. Here on the list, the positive aspects of social media.

Social media enables you to:

• Communicate and stay up to date with family and friends around the world.
• Find new friends and communities; network with other people who share similar interests or ambitions.
• Join or promote worthwhile causes; raise awareness on important issues.
• Seek or offer emotional support during tough times.
• Find vital social connection if you live in a remote area, for example, or have limited independence, social anxiety, or are part of a marginalized group.
• Find an outlet for your creativity and self-expression.
• Discover (with care) sources of valuable information and learning.

The Digital Age of Vulnerability

Nowadays, most of teens are addicted to social media. They spend them most of time in social media by scrolling Instagram or Facebook or chatting in WhatsApp. Using most of them in social media the relations between people are getting very low. Nowadays, students or friends fight among each other with just simple things. But it is reality that their fighting reason starting from social media. The results can be made like sharing pictures or making comments on post or any other thing, which they done in social media. And they do fight in their real life. And that is why this digital age make distance from people to people.

While teen males tend to express aggression physically, females do so relationally by excluding others and sharing hurtful comments. Social media increases the opportunity for such harmful interactions. A New York Times article that ran in June 2018 features a newlywed couple who nearly separated after their honeymoon. The reason: the wife spent more time on the trip planning and posting selfies than she spent with her husband.

“Middle school already is challenging for students with all of their developmental changes. As they go through puberty, they’re tasked with establishing their identity at a time when the frontal lobes in their brains are not fully developed, and there is a lack of impulse control. All of this happens while their relationships with peers become more important,” Sperling says.

“It’s a very vulnerable population to have access to something where there is no stopgap before they post or press the send button. I think that’s something of which to be mindful.”

Isolation.

 A study at the University of Pennsylvania found that high usage of Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram increases rather decreases feelings of loneliness. Conversely, the study found that reducing social media usage can actually make you feel less lonely and isolated and improve your overall wellbeing.

Depression and anxiety

. Human beings need face-to-face contact to be mentally healthy. Nothing reduces stress and boosts your mood faster or more effectively than eye-to-eye contact with someone who cares about you. The more you prioritize social media interaction over in-person relationships, the more you’re at risk for developing or exacerbating mood disorders such as anxiety and depression.

Cyberbullying:

About 10 percent of teens report being bullied on social media and many other users are subjected to offensive comments. Social media platforms such as Twitter can be hotspots for spreading hurtful Rumors, lies, and abuse that can leave lasting emotional scars.

Self-absorption.

 Sharing endless selfies and all your innermost thoughts on social media can create an unhealthy self-centeredness and distance you from real-life connections.

Excessive social media use can create a negative, self-perpetuating cycle:

1. When you feel lonely, depressed, anxious, or stressed, you use social media more often—as a way to relieve boredom or feel connected to others.
2. Using social media more often, though, increases FOMO and feelings of inadequacy, dissatisfaction, and isolation.
3. In turn, these feelings negatively affect your mood and worsen symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress.
4. These worsening symptoms cause you to use social media even more, and so the downward spiral continues.

Signs that social media is impacting your mental health

There are many symptoms which so that your mental health is effective by social media. If you use social media too long, then you will be a very irritating person. Or you cannot control your anger. You will lose your mind in very sort of things. And depression and anxiety is a part of your life. Many of your things what is the reason of this? If there creates any problem you can.

You can solve easily by talking to people, not chatting with other peoples. If you do chat, and  the other side people is in a cool mood, and things you are in a joke. And if you start joking, you will get anger. You lose your mind. And it’s not just on your mental health. It will also harm the relations between with other people.