Ways Of Reducing Risk Of Children And Young People From : Social Networking

Pantic, Igor. "Online Social Networking and Mental Health." Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking, vol. 17, no. 10, Oct. 2014, pp. 652-657. EBSCOhost, DOI: 10.1089/cyber.2014.0070. Doctor Pantic in “Online Social Networking and Mental Health” discusses various studies on Facebook and symptoms of depression, social

In his article, “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?” Stephen Marche argues that Facebook is the vital cause for loneliness and is luring people away from social capital. According to Marche, social networking isolates individuals and creates distance, mostly amongst family members. For some, it is not only isolation but rather social loneliness. The author claims that health can also be effected by loneliness. Nowadays, due to very little verbal person to person communication, he writes that people have never been so separated from one another because of social media. Facebook users, Marche argues, have an addiction to profoundly visit their account constantly leading to the feeling of loneliness and in most cases depression. The author claims that social networking, instead of demolishing isolation, is unknowingly spreading it. Ultimately, However, Stephen’s argument fails to convince due to his abundant false assumptions and the articles confusing organization.

In the article, Twenge talks about how spending the majority of you time on your phone, alone, rather than hanging out with people, you become more depressed. The amount of time teens have been doing screen activities like social media on your phone, vs non screen activities like hanging out with friends have gone up in recent years. Teens that participate in more non screen activities have shown to be generally more happy and less depressed than those who spend more time doing screen activities. Teens feeling lonely spiked in 2013 saying they feel they had been left out of things and wish they had better friends. I think that because of social media you often feel left out of activities that your friends are doing without you making you feel like they are bad friends and overall making you more depressed. “For all their power to link kids day and night, social media also exacerbate the age-old teen concern about being left out.”

To begin, I have owned a smartphone for five years and, have witnessed the loneliness that can come with it. Sometimes one can get so caught up with a phone that you don’t make plans with peers as often as you should, leading to little in person interactions (outside of school). I can see how this could lead to depression because I know that I need time with friends every now and then to feel sane. If this is true for others my age, then it is important to meet face to face to get the attention in person that one needs for mental health sake. It’s also difficult when people do hangout without you, you will know in minutes when their ‘get together” is blasted all over different forms of social media. I have seen others as well as myself be hurt by these posts when you believe you should have been invited. Once my friend (who I’d spent the past few new year’s evening’s with) told me she wasn’t having anyone over that year. That night I saw on social media that not only did she have people over, she had the same people over as the previous year there except me. This feeling of being left out can do some real deconstruction of one’s mind, and it hurt our friendship. Another example that comes to mind is when my friend from my dance studio kept getting left out of all activities we did outside of dance. She told me she

With this increase in technology, particularly the internet and social media, researchers have begun to question its effects on mental health, particularly anxiety, depression, and loneliness.

Social media has been an essential piece of peoples’ lives around the world. Social media can be used for either interactive websites or even entertainment websites for people. Today, social media can come in many different forms like blogs, forums, podcast, photo sharing, social bookmarking, live broadcasting video, and more. Social media sites can spread news of engagements, divorces, and even break ups. We also hear about job gains and losses, political news, or even the news of life and death where it can be easy or hard to become overwhelmed. Today there are many different reasons and opinions on why social media can cause an effect on mental health especially on major depression. People of different age groups can access social media sites like Facebook and Twitter to observe posts and entries that people can put on these sites every day. Some of the entrees and posts people

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.

Firstly, there have been significant links between our online presence and other aspects of our mental health, which has inspired the subject matter of many recent research studies around the world. There are many psychological and physical factors that affect our mental well-being due to the impact of social media. Depression and Body Dysmorphia being the leading causes, due to the content the individuals are exposed to while online. Even though researchers coined the correlation between social media use and depression as complex. Data was collected from a sample of 340 first year college students, and the findings were that the increase use of Facebook have been associated with higher levels of loneliness. Also the extensive use of Facebook has been associated with higher rates of disordered eating and body image insecurity.

“Mom and Dad there’s something I have to tell you.” Many kids around the world have been pick on social media. This is about how people agree with the idea of that individuals should be prosecuted for statements on social media. Kids that get picked on the social media is call “Cyberbullying”. This is tell how kids on social media get hurt or hurt themselves.

The popularity of social media giants such as Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook are on the rise and so is our nation's overall poor mental health status (The State of Mental Health in America). Studies have shown that there is a direct link between our social media obsession and our poor mental health (Walton). Social media can lead to feelings of comparison, jealousy and even delusional behavior. Another effect that social media has on our mental health is that it often leads to feelings of sadness and loneliness. Lastly, social media addiction is one of the many things that affects our mental health. Studies show that social media is often the cause of poor mental health, it can cause comparison, jealousy, loneliness and lastly addiction.

Nowadays, a lot of people are using social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumbler and so on. Since the Internet has propagated rapidly, social media have progressed a lot. The generalization of the internet makes us to live conveniently and fast. People are almost using smart phones, i-phones or comfortable devices which can access to internet. These equipments make us to do social network easily. It helps contact friends, family, and other people even though they live far away. It could be, however, abused, if you don’t use properly. Especially, it is important that we understand and regulate the use of social media by young children.

Many children are getting more involved in social media today. They want to feel more connected to their friends, and know what is going on in the world. However, they are also getting cyberbullied online, so how young is too young?

In general, the use social networking has many health and developmental benefits for the youth of today. Most teens have online accounts that they use to strengthen their friendships and stay connected with the people around them such as, school friends and teachers, groups they may be involved in, and maybe even family that are far away. Social networking also allows for an outlet to help teens with mental and moral support that they may lack in reality. This is really important especially for the youth who don’t necessarily have anyone to talk to or be there for them. Although one might argue that there are hotlines to help depressed youth, sometimes it’s not the same as having the support from your favorite social media site.

The technical minimum age limit for a child joining social media is supposed to be thirteen because of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) which prohibits companies from collecting certain information about children younger than this limit. But more than half of kids have already joined something by age ten. Kids don’t really need social media, but the only reason to let them utilize it is because other kids are too. When it comes to social media within the household (not on the go, or with a smartphone, but with a visible

The use of technology in education can prove to be problematic if not monitored properly. When children are not being monitored at school while during the use of technology they can be on social networking sites, which can cause problems such as cyber bullying. In “Face Book Joins Cyber Bully Fight” Reporter Adrian Lowe states that “earlier this year Catherine Bernard age 17, took her own life after schoolyard and face book bullying” (Par. 1). By bringing in types of technology into the classroom teachers must be aware of the problems that come with it. In today’s society children gain the knowledge of how to operate technology at a very early age, which can pose for issues at school for the teachers. In “Effects of a long-Duration,