Cause And Impact Of Social Media

The Impact of Social Media

Social Media has profound effects on today’s society. Over the years, Social Media has emerged as one of the prime choices of communication for people of all ages. In fact, 74% of online adults use Social Media. Social Media has become so defining feature of our traits and is bringing about changes to our society. While we cannot correctly predict the development of social medial in the next 20 years, we can foretell that its evolution will be evasive. Social Media has the ability to create more positive outcomes that it is already doing now, including contributing to causes and changes lives, but it could also potentially cause underlying problems to emerge from their cracks, including Social Media addiction.

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If social media is used properly, it can be a very effective way to allow people dealing with similar issues to create a support group of people they can relate to. Social media is easy to use and is accessible by a large audience of people. By harnessing the influence social media has on people, troubled individuals are able to seek help from others who are in a same or similar situation. Online patient communities are one such support groups. They are a very recent phenomenon that has the potential to grow into some phenomenal. These communities are a great source of information for patients and healthcare providers. Patients can source for information online from other patients or healthcare professionals. Patientslikeme, an online patient community, offers health plans for disease management for patients. In the not too distant future, online communities will become an integral part of healthcare because they empower patients and healthcare professional alike, albeit in a limited manner

Social media users spend a considerable amount of their daily lives interacting through social media. Subsequentially, controversies begin to unfold when cases of health issues as a result of social media addiction start to become an increasingly common phenomenon. Social media fires up a part of our brain that also lights up when we take abusive substances such as tobacco. The more we use it, the more addicted we get. Furthermore, research has shown that people who spend more time on Facebook usually felt worse about themselves as compared to people who spend less time on social media. Social media shapes perception and these perceptions become reality. The more time a person spends on social media, the greater the influence social will have on him. When one is constantly exposed to false images of ideal body image, he might become less confident about himself and change himself to fit into the society’s standards. However, when reality sets in, these false measures may end up causing the user to develop illnesses such as anxiety and depression. Peer pressure one faces to always remain connected unfortunately could lead to the biggest demon of all: addiction, which almost always leads to more underlying issues. As social media become more prevalent in our lives in the next 20 years, the threat of increasing addiction amongst users has become