The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Social Media

Although social media has many advantages, there are quite a lot of disadvantages too. The effects of social media to humans are very obvious when we compare the past generation without social media and current generation. Current generation seems to have more health problems than before. We spent so much time on social media and forget that our health is important too. Nowadays, we seldom exercise or spend time on sports. Most of our free time, we sit in front of our computer or looking at our phone instead doing something which is beneficial to our health. Social media addiction is very common in this era which is the main cause of our health problem.

People who spend a large amount of time on social networking are most likely to have obesity. The research has shown that people who addicted to social media are usually practice unbalanced diet such as snacking and too much intake of salts and sugars. They also delay their meals which is not healthy. With this kind of lifestyle, it will lead to more serious health problem such as heart attack, arteriosclerosis, diabetes, high blood pressure and many more that may cause death.

Next, social networking addicts are mostly have poor eyesight. People with poor eyesight will have trouble focusing at objects further away. This is because they strain their eyes everyday focus on computer and mobile phone for a long period of time. We should constantly take a short break and look at something about twenty meter away from us to rest