Continuing on with me research, we can all come to agreement that social media is addictive. We tend to check or social media 150 times a day and half of that time we are updating our status. Being on our phones can bring us a lot of emotions whether we realize it or not. Many of us can say that social media makes us happy. After a long day of school, work, practice we like to come home and check our snapchat, Instagram, twitter and just see what people are doing with their lives. We like to see all the twitter drama that is going on and we laugh at it, and this is something we like to do because it makes us happy.
It does not only make us happy but also sad many times. A survey was done in the UK and it was said that 50% of the people that use social media are sad just scrolling through. This may be because a girl posted a bikini picture that made our self-esteem go down or because someone went to the concert and had front row tickets to the concert you wanted to go to, or maybe the guy you like posted/commented a pic of a girl. In this respect, social network can act as an uncomfortable mirror against which we unconsciously measures ourselves and determine our own sense of worth. They are also a reminder of the benefits of true social interaction, also known as meeting up with someone and taking to them.
According to a article written by Tanya Lewis titled, Emotions Can Be Contagious on Online Social Networks, a study took place of 689,003 people and at the end of the study "they found that people who had positive words removed from New Feeds made fewer positive post and more negative ones, whereas people who had negative words removes made fewer negative posts and more positive ones." So basically people who saw fewer emotional post in their news feed were less expressive overall.
We can come to a conclusion that social media puts us through emotions that we do not need to be put through. We let what other people do or say choose wether or not we should be happy or sad. That is not how life should work, and we need to realize that.
"10 Ways Social Media Affects Mental Health." Degreed Blog Atom. 2015. Web. 11 May 2016.
Lewis, Tanya, and LiveScience. "Emotions Can Be Contagious on Online Social Networks." Scientific American. Web. 11 May 2016
It does not only make us happy but also sad many times. A survey was done in the UK and it was said that 50% of the people that use social media are sad just scrolling through. This may be because a girl posted a bikini picture that made our self-esteem go down or because someone went to the concert and had front row tickets to the concert you wanted to go to, or maybe the guy you like posted/commented a pic of a girl. In this respect, social network can act as an uncomfortable mirror against which we unconsciously measures ourselves and determine our own sense of worth. They are also a reminder of the benefits of true social interaction, also known as meeting up with someone and taking to them.According to a article written by Tanya Lewis titled, Emotions Can Be Contagious on Online Social Networks, a study took place of 689,003 people and at the end of the study "they found that people who had positive words removed from New Feeds made fewer positive post and more negative ones, whereas people who had negative words removes made fewer negative posts and more positive ones." So basically people who saw fewer emotional post in their news feed were less expressive overall.
We can come to a conclusion that social media puts us through emotions that we do not need to be put through. We let what other people do or say choose wether or not we should be happy or sad. That is not how life should work, and we need to realize that.
"10 Ways Social Media Affects Mental Health." Degreed Blog Atom. 2015. Web. 11 May 2016.
Lewis, Tanya, and LiveScience. "Emotions Can Be Contagious on Online Social Networks." Scientific American. Web. 11 May 2016
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