Media And Anxiety

Although it may seem unrelated, social media has been linked with depression. In reality, teenagers tend to spend a lot of time alone in their rooms accompanied by only their phones or laptops, which causes them to subconsciously feel alone even though they think they are communicating with the world through technology. In turn, loneliness increases the amount of time one spends thinking, making one

​Technological advancement is one factor that affects parent-child relationship. According to research, 46% of smartphone owners consider their smartphones as a necessity for daily living (Smith). Technology has made it possible to incorporate a lot of things in just one phone – you can use it as an alarm clock, a camera, a dictionary, and many more – making it a constant feature in day to day activities. Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and other social networking sites have made communication easier, that’s a good thing. However, most college students spend their time interacting with their friends online and that causes them to spend less time bonding with their parents. Likewise, the parents distance themselves from their children when they use technology as a means to bring more work at home. Even if technology

Clearly, social media plays a role in the lives of adolescents. Keeping our teens mentally healthy while providing strategies for managing social media is a frontier that is still being discovered and will evolve over time. Acknowledging the unintended consequences of social media use by adolescents is the first step: sleep deprivation, lowered self- esteem, increased anxiety and depression, increased risk of suicidal outcomes and conflict in the home, specifically among adolescents and their parents. The second step in this process is to find constructive ways to collaborate with our adolescents to minimize the negative impacts while maximizing the benefits, for example, positive moods spread faster than negative moods on social networks, adolescents feel safe accessing STD information, and other health questions they may not ask their parents. (Lamblin) Parents, pediatricians, schools, counselors, and web developers should work together to foster collaborative communication and create best practices with regard

According to Twenge, the number of teens that go out with their friends has decreased by 40 percent compared to earlier generations. Twenge compares iGens to different generations such as Gen X (born between 1965 and early 1984), baby boomers (1946-1964) and Millennials (born around 1982-2002). Twenge emphasizes on the time teenagers spend on their phones. Social media plays a huge role in this. In accordance to Twenge, different forms of social media like Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat are what teenagers spend more time on. According to Twenge, the more time teens spend on smartphones the greater they are at risk for suicide, depression, and loneliness. Twenge also explains how teens are not receiving an adequate amount of sleep, many teens now sleep less than seven hours. Twenge concludes the article by sharing her own experience with her children and technology, she recommends parents to limit the time their children spend on phones. (59-65)

Cell phones are affecting the lives of people in a negative way. People have begun to rely solely on the technology that has been created rather than picking up a book or finding answers the old-fashioned way. A major issue that has occurred because of cell phones is the lack of social skills in most nearly all individuals. Cell phones have greatly shaped society and destroyed face to face social skills. People pick up their phones and send a text rather than going to speak to a person. “According to an article in the Huffington Post, children do not know how to handle face-to-face conflict because so much of their interactions occur through some sort of technology…. Cell phones are now preventing these social skills from being taught because children are too caught up in technology than the real world.”(Hyman) When growing up, most children are taught how to make friends, but now children are growing up with the access to technology which has a great impact in shaping the social skills of children. “Young adults also use text messaging as their primary method of contacting friends – over 80 percent report texting as their preferred method.”(Voegeli). Young adults and even older adults have developed an addiction to their cell phone. Cell phones do make it easier to contact people, but they make social skills in individuals dissipate. People are attached to their phones like it is a part of their body. Technology like the cell phone has taken a toll on everyday life events. People cannot even sit in a room with their family without being on their phones. In most cases, they would rather text one another instead of having a conversation. Society needs to

The more we use social media, the less happy we seem to be. Many people would agree that social media leads to isolation, depression, and anxiety. Social Media impacts people in many ways; some are good, but some are very bad. Using social media to communicate is extremely convenient, unfortunately, more people are developing social anxiety because we are learning to comunicate through a screen from a young age. Also, seeing people posting about all the good in their lives can lead you to compare yourself to others. Most importantly, increased exposure of bullying through the internet contributes to high risk of depression. Generally, social media has more bad effects on our mental health than good ones.

The use of these applications provides a more effective outcome of everyday lives. However, the overuse of the technology and social media has negatively impacted those who abuse their time on technology and the use of social media platforms. The first source explains why the overuse of technology negatively effects adolescents and gives data to support their idea. The point of this article is to promote awareness for the younger generation and their abuse of technology. The author gives statistics and multiple studies to back up their argument. The article explains that the overuse of technology can eventually lead to mental health issues and irregular behavior and can lead to depression and mental anxiety.

Parents need to pay more attention to their phones than their children. In the article “For The Children’s Sake, Put Down That Smartphone”By Patti Neighmond, it states evidence that “Forty of the 55 parents used a mobile device during the meal, and many, she says, were more absorbed in the device than with the kids”. Children will soon feel neglected that parents chose their phones over them. People have done research that kids feel angry that their parents use the mobile device. It states “ ….Steiner-Adair interviewed 1,000 children between the ages of 4 and 18, asking them about their parents’ use of mobile devices. The language that came up over and over again, she says, was sad, mad, angry, and lonely”. This show that families need to stay off their phones and pay more attention to their each

The advent of social technology may bear some responsibility for anxiety and depression in adolescents, teenagers, and young adults. Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat and Instagram -- they are all fun -- until things get out of hand. The 2014 National College Health Assessment, a survey of nearly 80,000 college students throughout the United States, found that 54% of students reported experiencing overwhelming anxiety in the past 12 months and that 32.6% "felt so depressed that it was difficult to function" during the same period. The study also found that 6.4% had "intentionally, cut, burned, bruised or otherwise injured" themselves, that 8.1% had seriously considered suicide and that 1.3% had attempted suicide (Potarazu). Sreedhar uses logos to support how social media have some part in the causes of anxiety and depression in adolescents, teenagers, and young adults. He uses the survey data conducted by The National College Health Assessment to prove his point.

To start with, many kids feel not loved when their parents go on their phone. I believe that on a larger scale parents use their phone more than they should. To support this on the article Kids Feel Unimportant to Cell Phone-Addicted Parents, over than 6,000 kids were surveyed ages 8-16. The children were from Brazil,Australia,Canada,France,The United Kingdom,Germany, The Czech Republic and United States. The surveyed found that 32 percent of kids felt unimportant when their parents were

This research has helped me understand how students in our cohort and from all over the world feel this over-reliance on media, by proving that there is a direct correlation between too much social media communication and anxiety and depression (McHugh, 2011). This experience has taught me that I rely too much on all forms of media and that it would be better for me to learn how to manage my use of media. This challenge would be something I would consider doing again in the future, with my family, to see if we can actually stay offline for the entire 24 hour

“The analysis showed that people who reported using the most platforms (seven to 11) had more than three times the risk of depression and anxiety” (Zagorski web). The younger the person is when exposed to social media the more likely they are to suffer from depression and anxiety. With teen’s brains not fully developed and using multiple social media site this could lead to negative thought or feeling in a teen. This could lead to making a teen self-harm or committing suicide. With so many teens on social media and so many emotions on these sites they are contagious to read, however when a teen reads these statuses it also can make them feel the same way. So, when a teen reads a depressing status it can cause them to feel the exact same way.

Studies have shown that the average person now spends more time each day on their phone and computer than they do sleeping according to Nick McGillivray (“What are the Effects of Social Media on Youth?). Social has become part of our social society, especially for the many youths. There are positives to being on social media and also equal amounts of danger that come with using social networking sites, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc. These social networking sites also have effects on today’s youth by altering the way they behave, the way they learn, in not only a classroom setting but also in the real world setting, and the way that they socialize with their peers and others.

A study by Harvard Business Review found that team performance went up 50% when teams socialized more and limited email and eventually, anyone or “operational-only” issues. Clearly, there’s a theme here. We don’t just “become lonelier” as a human race over time. It seems that with the advent of social media, laptops, and apps, we’re choosing screens over personal interactions. According to Time, most Americans from age 18 to 24 check their phone 74 times a day on average. Use of internet has certainly increased the quantity of our mental stimulation, but we lack the quality. According to Forbes, The American Academy of Pediatrics aware the possibility of negative effects of social media in young kids and teens, including cyber-bullying and Facebook depression. Using social media disturbs make deep relationship with others. When they are using social-media we do not need to move a lot. It is okay just to stay. We do not need to active a lot. As a result, it leads naturally mental and physical disabilities. Although social media can connect teens to the world and friends and family around them, it is actually one of the highest-ranking cause of suicide among teenagers in 21st century. People sometimes talks about how social media is becoming part of their world, it is becoming their world. They are unaware of the fact that social media encourages the false images of how everything should be in a perfect world. This not only increases stresses and changes in a normal human life but, it leads to depression and some mental diseases. When it comes to study, a study conducted by Liberty Voice shows that, children have become more dumb, lazier, rude and depressed due to the use of social media. They have been spending

Susanna Schrobsdorff claims in her informative essay “Teen Depression and Anxiety: Why the Kids Are Not Alright” that social media is one of the most constant pressures that increase depression and anxiety within teenagers. The pressure of their peers and the pressure they put on themselves can cause the overwhelming sense of emotion that many teens with these disorders are feeling. Because technology has become such an influence on the lives of teenagers within the past decade, the increase in depression and anxiety has risen. Teenagers are becoming more aware of the world around them and the situations that many others go through, and find it hard to separate what they see online from the lives they live and the emotions they feel in their own lives. It becomes difficult to separate their lives from the influences, both positive and negative, of others they view online. Though social media is the biggest influencer in the increase of depression and anxiety, other factors such as stress from school and feeling the inability to express their emotions verbally can have an influence on depression. Schrobsdorff notes that there is a mixing of many influences that cause teens to resort to self-harm or wanting to shut away from people. She alludes to the idea that parents need to have a larger presence within their children's lives to notice the emotions and changes within their children to be able to sense these disorders and stop the effects before more violence occurs.