THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON MENTAL HEALTH

Social media is a platform where people connect, communicate, share ideas, share photos and information, and even share photos and make calls. All these basically connect people. Here, the connection is purely voluntary for the person. There is no compulsion by anyone. The group of people who had the traits where they would shy away from lots of people and situations and feel anxious to face some circumstances, like talking to people face-to-face, making eye contact, and expressing even the most important matters in their lives. All these would make the person a loser in life and also affect their self-esteem and personality as well. The general opinion of people about him would also be negative. For such a community of people came a platform where they could freely express their feelings and emotions and also get some entertainment if they wanted through numerous platforms, and also they got the freedom to talk to their friends and relatives, which served as a ventilator of their loneliness and sadness, and the like. So social media came as a companion to such people. This eliminated anxiety, mild depression, and such neurotic disorders. It acted more as a preventive measure than a cure for a lot of people of all age groups. If anyone were to be in trouble, it would be a call away to get help and a solution. There are a lot of people who have benefited from social media in times of emergency when it came to meeting important people, reaching the hospital, reaching a place on time, sending information in time, and the like.

It has also kept people happy and helped them give themselves some time. The information about children to the parents and about aged parents to the adult children is known 24/7, which has kept everyone peaceful. Keeping away the ill effects of social media, the benefits are so much for us as humans to do with our mental health. Social media has not only connected people, but also it has integrated the mind and served mankind in the required time. Anything in excess is bad; the same is the case with social media as well. Let it be used wisely and not misused