Hello everyone! I hope you are doing very well today.
Social media is a platform where people meet other people from different backgrounds, with different cultures, and with different perspectives about life. It is very important to understand and discover yourself before you be in any social space, because it is always tempting to do what you were not supposed to have done in life. Social media has a way of changing people's identities and making them feel that they are not supposed to be themselves. The social media has negative and positive influence on people.
Here are some negative impacts on our metal health:
Social media can create stress and anxiety and can also create the fear of missing out. Social makes you feel that since some things are not in place in your life, you are missing out on the trend or that you are missing out on what people are benefiting from. The social media platform has a way of informing you of a lot of things, and it also has a way of forcing you into doing those things so as not to leave. it of the trend.
The social media platform can cause depression, especially when you feel left behind. There are people who think that they are worthless because of what they have seen and heard on social media. When they see how other people have made it on a particular thing, they feel bad for themselves, not understanding that there is time for everything.
Social media can make you not follow your to-do list, as you would always want to see every notification as soon as the sound comes. For instance, if you were doing something very important and you just heard your notification sound, if you were not really disciplined, you would just leave whatever you were doing to check what's up with the sound, and this can distract you from what you were doing, and some of the time that notification was not as important as what you were doing for yourself.
Over time, social media has replaced face-to-face conversations and has made people lonely. Just like me, I love attention and affection, and the social has not given me that, as I love seeing the person I am talking to.
On the other hand, social media has so many positive impacts.
The social support you get from social media would have been possible. The social project you and all that you do to the world.It makes you visible to so many people and exposes you to learning a lot too.
It makes you creative because you see and learn every day. There are things I know about that I didn't know until I joined social media. It made me very creative and also shaped my way of thinking.
In all of these, make sure that instead of letting social media affect you negatively, you learn from it and make a positive impact. Social media is amoral; you choose what you want from it. To a lazy man, it makes you more lazy; to someone who is hardworking, it makes you more hardworking.
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