Social Media Addiction Research Paper

Social Media Addiction

Report by Teo Rui Zhi Rachel of class 2E6

Research Metor(s): Mr Ang

Abstract:

Social Media Addiction is the main topic of this report. This report shows the amount of teenagers these days addicted to social media and therefore, find a cause to the addiction. How can we solve the problem of social media addiction? Through this report, the question will find its answer.

Content

1.0 Introduction 3

2.0 Causes and Consequences of social media addiction

2.1 What are the main causes of social media addiction?

2.2 What are some symptoms of social media addiction?

3.2 What are the consequences of social media addiction? 4

3.0 Some ways to kick social media addiction 4.0 Survey Results and Analysis 5-6

5.0 Further

According to a new eMarketer report, “Worldwide Social Network Users: 2013 Forecast and Comparative Estimates” , one in every four people uses social media.It aims to find out the amount of people addicted to social media and find out why people use social media so frequently. However, what is considered as an addiction to social media? Most people just say that using too much of the electronic devices to access social media is considered as an addiction. How many hours of using the electronic devices to access social media is actually considered as an addiction?

This report covers the background information of social media as well as the causes and consequences of social media. This report also outlines some recommendation of how to lessen the usage of social media.

2.0 Causes and Consequences of social media addiction

2.1 What are the causes of social media addiction?

According to an article written by Joanna Saisan, M.S.W., Melinda Smith, M.A., Lawrence Robinson, and Jeanne Segal, Ph.D. , the main cause of social media addiction are the need to use social media platform to release unhappy feelings. When people are feeling unhappy, instead of talking to people, they use social media as a temporary relieve of their stress. This will then lead to it being a habit and developing into an

If they spend more than an hour of social media a day,it can be relatively harmful to their bodies as they are exposed to too much radiation which is harmful to their bodies.64.9% of the people also think that social media is relatively important in their daily life, which means they use social media everyday. We can tell that social media has impacted teenagers in a huge way as teenagers can not stop using social media and now almost every teenager use social media and it has become a part of their daily lives.According to the statistics portal, the amount of people using social media has jumped from 0.97 billion people in 2010 to 1.96 billion people in 2014,which is almost a difference of 1 billion people.From another survey question,it shows that more than half of the people cannot survive a day without using their social media.This shows that the number of people using social media has been significantly increasing and has entered the lives of many