Social media is the component of our daily life, and social media applications like TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat are now a part of everyone’s life. Now, it is very likely that the majority of the population can explain that they have wasted more than an hour and even do not notice that they have turned off their social media or phone. Social media is some way bringing change to advantage, but social media is some way bringing some disadvantage which are blocking our well-being.
On the contrary, social media is some platform where a person can be of the same kind of people, same kind of passion, and same kind of belongingness. Social media is some platform where a person can be himself in different modes of expression like photography, painting, or singing. Social media is a place where one has the opportunity to learn from anybody from whom individuals learn something new, know better, and even other worlds. There, one also has an opportunity to encounter his heroes personally or even get an opportunity to utter a word with someone whom he loves, and where there can be a share of happiness and inspirations.
The bad thing about social media and it is just so huge. One of its worst qualities is the way in which it can influence the condition of one’s mind. Its most common in teenagers to get depressed, compare lesser and worse when individuals on social media are being compared. Social media shows other people’s lives that are unreal, and those will make a person depressed, and in excess, depression. Second, social media addiction is also on the rise since all of us spend hours daily on our cellphone and lose out on real-life friends and hobbies. Cyberbullying is also on the rise since anonymity in the virtual world is the center of exploitation. Social networking is a great place for creativeness, learnability, and connectiveness as a whole.
Overall, we must balance and embrace social media in our lives wherein we can employ it to be inspired and if we just prefer the screen time optimum and let it consume us, then we may achieve the good half of the benefits of social media and be overwhelmed by weaknesses otherwise it will damage a lot to mental health.