Journal Article Review
An Examination of the Association of Social Media Use with the Satisfaction with Daily Routines and Healthy Lifestyle Habits for Undergraduate and Graduate Students
This journal article is about how in the world that we live in today, the usage of social media has turned into a daily routine and necessity for college and graduate students. According to Pew
Internet in 2015, 90% of adults aged 18 to 29 are networking on social media. The article aims to study how the usage of social media satisfies daily routines and healthy lifestyle habits positively and negatively on their emotional and physical health for students in their tertiary education. This study was conducted based on the answers that students gave through a survey regarding the amount of time
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Based on the survey and data analysis, Austin -McCain found that the usage of social media is somewhat related to healthy lifestyle habits such as relaxation, leisure, participation in social activities as well as their satisfaction with daily routines. However, research also showed that healthy lifestyle habits such as healthy eating and exercising have no relations between other healthy habits. This study is important as Austin-McCain concluded that although social media is not harmful, interdisciplinary practitioners, as well as educators, should be informed with essential information and strategies in order to promote overall health and well-being as undergraduate and graduate students are exposed to the risks of having poor health (CDC, 2016).
This paper analyzes the effects technology has on mental health. When overused, without face to face communication, one may experience anxiety and stress. A study from the American Phycology Association states that most teenagers use social media, teenagers are especially vulnerable to these effects because technology surrounds them in their day lives. When using social networking, or technology in general, while maintaining face to face socialization one can also sustain their health. How Social Media and Technology Affects Mental Health Add to your intro.
Forty million people a day view Instagram stories, 79% of teenagers use Snapchat once a day, and 51% use it at least eleven times a day. In fact, teenagers use on average five screens a day (Patel, “10 Tips”). The use of social media makes teenagers happier and cures their boredom after school. However, problems arise when young people find all their satisfaction on social media. All this time spent on social media and whether you get enough “likes” could result in a bad outcome and cause poor health.
Some of the negative results of the increasing use of social media are a greater change of friend groups and acquaintances, increased awareness of the livelihood of our fellow peers, and more exposure to the world around us. With all these results, it is easy to see why young adults continue to become distant and flexible later on in their lives than those of previous generations. One of the most prominent consequences of the continued use of social media is the increase in average age of
Social Media: How It Is Changing Our Lives I. Introduction A. Attention Getter a. 91% of Internet access is for social networking. 73% of that is smartphone owners browsing through social media through their smart phones at least once per day. b. Facebook is one of the most distinguishable social networking sites because of the popularity among students, parents, etc. c.
Social Media has had a big influence on the world since it first made an appearance. It helps open doors that people never knew were there. It can signify trends and create and conceal content, help you feel less alone and more confidence in yourself you’ve never shown before, and it can help find people in a crisis with a bi-directional flow of information. Social media is an amazing tool preferred by many because it is easy to use, it allows people to share their experiences, and in emergency situations, it can help responders communicate with the public and among themselves. Social media is often free and it is fairly easy to use.
What social media is doing to teens Social media is a very dangerous place that makes teens feel insecure. Teens spend more than one-third of their day on social media looking at stereotypical images of “perfect” bodies and people. As a result, they become insecure about themselves because they are not like the people in the pictures. The media states that a perfect person is skinny, tan, has shiny hair, straight teeth, and completely clear skin. However, because teens are going through a lot of physical changes they do not usually look like social media 's definition of perfect and they become insecure.
In the generation of technology and innovation, the creation of social mediaattract a vast number of people world wide. Aside from the basic necessities of living it may also considered as one of the most important belonging of an individual in this day and age. Primarily because of its accessibility to communication, information, education, and entertainment. Social media offers several kinds of Social Networking Sites (SNSs) such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Gmail, YouTube, and among other things, which enable the users to communicate and participate to broader range of issues and events worldwide.
The Impact of Social Media on Socialization Erin Hundley Dalton State University January 22, 2018 Abstract How does social media impact human socialization? This study examines the relationship between the use of social media and the impact it has on social interactions. It explores how social media platforms such as Facebook, Snap Chat and Twitter have changed the way people conduct social interactions with one another daily. This study set out to explore the negative and positive impacts of these changes on human socialization.
Apps like Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, Facebook, and Buzzfeed can cause a decrease in the overall products of students’ works and an increase in the amount of time needed to complete the product because of the incessant notifications that show up on an individual’s screen every five minutes. In a 2011 study conducted by Wade Jacobsen and Renata Forste on “Academic and Social Outcomes of Electronic Media Use Among College Students,” they concluded from more than 1,000 undergraduates that 2.45 hours are spent on the internet, and an hour is usually spent watching television. High school students spend roughly about 2.3 hours on technology and media everyday, and as new media platforms come out, more time is spent on them. The temptations of answering someone or looking at who liked your picture on Instagram causes great disruptions in studying and workplaces. When a student’s final product is not up to the standards or is incomplete, it can severely affect their grades in school.
Social media sites including Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are at their peak when influencing young adults. Ongoing issues, cyberbullying, threats, and hate crimes are being presented through these social media sites and this is one of the multitude of reasons why parents should limit the use of technology for their teenagers. I agree that parents should limit the use of social media for their teenage child, or for any age child, because ongoing use causes lack of exercise, impaired social skills, and harm for threat and violence. Parents should restrict the use of social media sites for their children because it causes a decrease in physical activity. New research is showing a rapid decline in physical activity all around the globe.
Nevertheless, social media plays a huge role in our society, it connects people all over the world, provides an opportunity to work or study being at home and it gives space for self-expression. Involving in numerous sorts of social media has become a daily activity for most teenagers and grown-ups. According to a survey, 22% of adolescents log on to their preferred social media site more than ten times a
Impact Social Media in Society Social Media is a medium that uses technology to share all the information that occurs in society or about one 's life and networks. Social Media technologies take on various forms including magazines, internet forums, weblogs, social blogs, microblogging, wikis, podcasts, photos or images, videos, social rankings and bookmarks. Social Media in the Society has a big impact on the daily life. Everbody can used social media, it could be young or old people.
With the internet being invented and undoubtedly taking huge precedence in our lives, there is inevitably going to be a way for people to waste their time on the internet. That time waster, also known as social media, is one of the most beneficial and also one of the worst things that has entered the lives of people as a result of the internet. People everywhere use social media. They use it to feel connected to people who are far away, to promote their businesses, and for a plethora of other reasons. Social media has begun to be increasing used in school, the workplace, and also just in peoples own homes.
Social networking is the connection of friends or family together which allow people to communicate easily. With social networking sites people can have a long chain of friends they can chat or share information with. Mostly students devote more attention to social media than they do to their studies. Students’ addictiveness to social network, students’ frequency of exposure to social network, social media network that the students are more exposed to and the influence of social media as a medium of interaction between students has been part of discussion in recent times and which have imparted on their academic performance. This synopsis thesis addresses the effects of using social networking on students.
Chapter 1 Background of the Study Introduction In the contemporary world, most people use social media for news, entertainment, to seek information and to be updated every day. Nowadays, the use of social media has greatly changed how people interact with other people. Today, most people only consider the benefits that the social media brought to the people without thinking about the possible negative implications of using it.