Authors
Prashant Kumar Mishra
Abstract
Social media has enhanced the quality, quantity and utility from past two decades. As the individual’s body gets nourished by the intake of necessary mineral components that is obtained through nutrition, similarly the mind of human is Social media has enhanced the quality, quantity and utility from past two decades. As the individual’s body gets nourished by the intake of necessary mineral components that is obtained through nutrition, similarly the mind of human is nurtured by the accessibility of nutrition for thoughts. In today’s scenario, various types of thoughts are readily available by the technology advancement that opens a platform for the purpose of discussion between social media and the mental health of the present time. Since the time of internet and social networking sites, the resources for human of contemporary world have become more virtual socially but less practical. Increase in the usage of social media among adults is considered as a matter of concern for parents, society and researchers. The main objective of this paper is to explore the social media effect on mental health. Keywords: Social Media, Mental health, depression nurtured by the accessibility of nutrition for thoughts. In today’s scenario, various types of thoughts are readily available by the technology advancement that opens a platform for the purpose of discussion between social media and the mental health of the present time. Since the time of internet and social networking sites, the resources for human of contemporary world have become more virtual socially but less practical. Increase in the usage of social media among adults is considered as a matter of concern for parents, society and researchers. The main objective of this paper is to explore the social media effect on mental health. Keywords: Social Media, Mental health, depression
Introduction
Over the past decades, the users of social networking sites (SNSs) such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat have involved billions of users worldwide. The use of these SNSs has become entangled with daily lives of people such as alone facebook has a 1.04 billion active users of daily worldwide. Some of the sites which are web based are communities having virtual environment where users can generate individual profits to public, real life interaction with friends and on the basis of shared interests meet other people. The particular region of study has increasingly becoming importance since their emergence and usage because of the research that forms an association between usage of general internet that includes online activities such as SNS and certain problems related to the mental health.
The usage of social networking sites has increased significantly in the past decades, due to the growth in the SNS platforms and the accessibility is improved on smartphones and tablets. There are many positive parameters that is associated with usage of SNS such as establishing and the maintenance of the relationships, and sometimes the individual seem to be driven by forces (external and internal) to use social networking sites compulsively (Donnelly and Kuss ,2016).
According to Boyd and Elison 2007, there are majorly three types of parameters which are required to meet the SNS’s definition which are,
• A constructed online profile
• User’s friends and followers list who are intended with and
• A linkage to each and every friends, follower or contacts profile.
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