Abstract

SOCIAL MEDIA AND MENTAL HEALTH OF ADOLESCENTS: A REVIEW

Firdousa Jan*

Abstract

Use of social media has brought world closer and every individual finds it easy to befriend any person living in any part of the world. People communicate through social media websites more than using their cell phones. Some people just use it as fun. A good number of people use them as their favorite time pass who share every kind of trash on different social networking sites. Social network sites have increased tremendously in its popularity in our society where the majority of users are adolescents. use of social media is a way of communicating with friends, families all around the world but there are many negative impacts of social media in adolescent‟s mental health. Social media plays a very important role in environment of children because the process of information, reaction to a particular situation and remembrance of events have impact on developing brain of adolescents. Social media is now serving as a need more than a want. The excessive use of social media websites is a great concern for parents and society as for as mental health is concerned. The most popular online social networking sites are available for free use such as face book, instagram, twitter, snap chat and you tube, MySpace etc. The most popular social media site is face book, majority of adolescents use face book as a form of communication. Adolescents now-a days are checking their face book every minute and with the result this addiction cause various mental health issues.

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