Social Media can also be responsible for many of our society’s problems. Such a fault is always warranted. Overall, the growth of social media has many fairly crappy things to do about it. The social media repercussions need to be examined closely using a neutral eye. I don’t yet have an axis to grind to social media firms right in front of me. Many of social media’s impacts are symptoms, but not viruses, although unique to social media. These signs, however, refer to greater cultural problems rather than to social media. Regarding the positive influence of social media, technologies, and society, in general, reveal their strength.
In the end, social media seems to be a sustainable aspect of the environment. It’s worth our time to get to terms with what it entails. Our brief review has been divided into 2 sections:
- Psycho-Social Impacts of Social Media
- Physical Impacts of Social Media
Below are the negative and optimistic social media psychological consequences in six subsequent fields.
It Affects Our Self-Esteem: It’s always worthwhile to compare your personal life with social media presentations. Most people don’t care about actual life and glamorize or exaggerate themselves while they do. Taking social media into reality is damaging, as our minds do, to our self-image.
It Controls Human Relationships: While social media enables connections to a broader community with a common purpose, real-life relationships are essential. Many people live with increased rates of depression without genuine human interaction.
It Feeds Our Memory: Refreshen your feed unendingly, load your head with posts from everyone and restart to fill your memory with more hurts. For example, thanks to Facebook, you don’t have to remember birthdays.
It Kills Our Sleep: It’s difficult for social media to shut off your mind. When night arrives, you can’t just stop using social media during the day. Your imagination is just going to force you to search again. This allows you to scroll in mindless mode.
Cyber Bullying: With the increase of social media craze in youth, cyberbullying is also at its peak. People, in order to humiliate others, share false, harmful and negative content on social media platforms. They, however, use cyberbullying as a means to increase their followers, likes, comments, etc. People prefer Twitter when we talk about cyberbullying, followed by Facebook, Instagram, and other social media channels.
Loss of Humanity: People are losing their basic human nature of helping each other in the hour of need. Say, if someone is having an issue and it goes public, the first thing that comes to the mind of bystanders is capturing a video rather than helping the person in need.
Caution:
If you find anything uncomfortable or boring on social media, what are you doing? You scroll past the article, you follow the page, you remove the post from view, and move on. This is still a weak feedback loop in the attention span.
Glad, it has some Good Impact too!
The research is positive and examines three social media-related psychological health outcomes. Users have reported psychological outcomes as a result of their social media relationships. Users of frequent contact, who participated in social media but did not obsessively, had good results as part of their everyday routine. They had disappointing results for those who used it without use and for more addictive relations with social media. Take the example below of constructive social media relations.
Uninterrupted Connection: A family living far from their kids. Without social media, daily conversation and connection will be prevented in a busy life. The parents will remain united with the family.
A foreign student, in a new place. These students do not often allow themselves to have close interaction with friends and relatives. Differences in time, financial expenses, and daily activity are hindered. Via social media, students, families, and acquaintances enjoy intimate and important connections over long distances and long periods.
Social Media Nurtures Distance Relationships: These distance-unsustainable relationships have important psychologically optimistic results. The psychological and social media challenge is not the medium, nor how we use it. The relational relationship we like with people who are far away can be tricky. Moreover, the social media help forum can be used by all of us who are struggling to locate a group of like-minded people in our region. Social media’s socio-psychological consequences are by no means healthy. However, the good pieces are really good.
Physical Impacts
The Social Media Repercussions can be both negative and positive as are described below.
Negative Effects
Carpal Tunnel: Poor shape and posture add to wrist pain while operating laptops or mobile phones. It can be particularly unpleasant for carpal tunnels. As a result, our craning posture while scrolling through social media on our screens exacerbates neck problems.
Sight and Sleep Problems: Blue light, an essential complement to social media, emanates from mobile devices. The flickering imperceptibly triggers tiredness and discomfort. Besides, overuse also occurs with headaches and dry eyes. Sleep is a connecting point. Our sleep cycles are regulated by natural blue light. An unnatural blue light will interrupt the sleep cycle without proper regulation.
Tiredness: The excessive use of technology leads to tiredness due to the sleep issues described above. A relentless sense of fatigue, which scarcely relieves one from sleep or rest.
Laziness: Staying inside and using social media is an ongoing substitute for many. Our health fails without routine, vigorous training.
Positive Effects
There might be a link to motivators for certain social media. Anyone who needs guidance will find an inspirational Instagram account that will help them progress on their goals. Maybe someone would join a group on social media that suggests positive outdoor and physical activity as a family. Again, the relations with social media, not the media itself, are concerned with the issue of good vs. negative results.
Wrap Up
No matter what, excess of everything is bad and so is for social media. Using social media 24-hours or whenever in free time fills your mind with unnecessary things, be it videos, images or memes. It may affect the physical and mental state of the person to a great extent if done for long. While utilizing social media for positive reasons can do a great benefit to all of us. So, we should know the difference between “what to and what not to” to ensure that no negative social media repercussions could hit us.
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