What is social media:
Social media is an interactive computer based technology that can facilitate the creation or sharing information, ideas, career interests, and other forms of expression through virtual communities and networks
What is mental health:
It includes our emotional, psychological , and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices.
How does it affect us putting them together?
The positives of social media:
- Communication- stay up to date with family and friends from all over the world.
- Seek/offer support- reach out to thousands of people around the world who need the support. (If you’re mentally strong enough to do so)
- Join/promote groups- supporting groups or promoting your business or groups can help you succeed in your business.
- New friends- making new friends can make yourself feel good and boost confidence.
- Creativity- finding a creativity in yourself or others.
The negatives of social media:
- FOMO (fear of missing out)- having a fear of missing out in technology devices or new up to date clothing can cause massive panic and can lead to panic attacks.
- Certain ways- having social media when you’re not particularly having a good day or been treated a certain way can start making you feel you NEED to look/act a way supermodels do. Most sayings I’ve heard is ‘I need to be skinny like that model’ or ‘I need lips like kylie Jenner’ BUT 90% of the time it’s photoshopped.
- Relying on social media- relying on social media can cause you to forget reality exists and unfortunately it isn’t real.
- Cyber bullying- perhaps you turn to social media because you’re being bullied physically when reality and statics have shown 80% of suicide stories are related to cyber bullying. This can be anything from a phone call up to a comment on a pic. Words hurt. This could also lead to self explosion.
- loneliness- social media can also make you feel more lonelier than you was before.
My experience:
Social media has become a most chunk of my life. I was 12 when I first joined a social media platform. I’ve had cyber bullying, suicide thoughts, lose many friends, self harm thoughts all due to one post. I log into Instagram see a skinny girl and think I NEED to look like that. Reality is NO! You’re perfect the way you are. The photos you see is photoshopped. Even models have bad skin, no one in this world is perfect. I bet 50% of my girl readers have had an experience where you’re with someone and he likes a girls post. They call it us being “psycho” but in reality it makes us think we ain’t enough and we need to look like them. You need to remember we are not in reality we use social media to escape reality. You seem them photos they look happy right? Well I guarantee they ain’t it’s just for the views. Been there done that. So what are the suicide rates?:
Suicide rates from social media:
Statistics reveal close to 800,000 who take their own life every year and this estimated amount differentiates from those who attempt that act alone which sometimes can be more.
As you can see just from social media the death with suicide increases each year. That’s 800,000 lives that were precious. WORDS HURT. PLEASE be careful what you write and what you say one word causes one death. I’m going to leave this here now but please in future people really think about how they act and do❤️
‼️EVERY SINGLE LIFE IS WORTH LIVING. LIVE YOUR BEST LIFE ‼️
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