CAN EXCESSIVE USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA CONTRIBUTE TO

ADDICTIVE BEHAVIOURS OR MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES

Objectives

• Comparative study of positive and negative aspects of social media.

• Identify and categorize addictiveness to social media.

• Effects of social media on mental health.

• Reasons for people to get addicted.

SCOPE

The study relates to the effect of negative aspects of social media’s contribution to the human behaviour on the youth population of

Bangalore.

Definition of the terms

SNS (Social Networking Site):

• Social networking is a global revolution, enabling around a billion people worldwide to stay in touch with their friends, share experiences and photographs and exchange personal content. In many ways it has replaced the telephone and email.• Various social networking sites are also valuable tools used by many

companies and individuals to extend their contacts and deliver marketing messages.• Include Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Whatsapp mainly for research.

SOCIAL MEDIA

• Social media are computer-mediated tools that allow people to create, share or exchange information, ideas, and pictures/videos in virtual communities and networks. • Social media are different from traditional or industrial

media in many ways, including quality, reach, frequency, usability, immediacy, and permanence.

• ADDICTION : It is a psychological feeling of dependence. It is a state of being enslaved to a habit to such a state that its cessation causes serious trauma.

• SOCIALISATION: It is a general term for the many different ways and processes by which children come to be able to function as members of their social community. It is in part a process of learning and in part a process of being taught, but modern views of socialisation also stress the active role of children in making sense of their social world, and constructing their own ways of being part of their social group.

•MENTAL ILLNESS : It is a hostile feeling in the mind where its further stage leads to serious trauma to the person.

• Online Gambling: the act of gambling using internet mainly SNSs.It is the act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning.

Assumptions

Basic Assumptions (Facts taken out of already conducted

researches)..

2. Overuse/Addiction of anything has ill effects.

1. Everyone is Connected to Social Media

HYPOTHESIS(Excessive use of Social media

lead to)

Social Awkwardness

Unproductivity or Reduced productivity

Anxiety

dual-personality disorder

Ways Social Media Affects Our Mental Health

Social media is addictive. Social media makes us compare our lives with others’. Social media makes us restless Social media gives rise to cyber bullying. Social media can make us unhappy

Methodology of Research:•Types of Research

•Method of research

Type of research:

•Descriptive: a) factors that lead to excessive use

i) Cognitive-behavioral modelii) Social - skill modeliii) Social – Cognitive model

b) factors that evolve due to excessive usei) Mood modification ii) Tolerance iii) Withdrawaliv) Relapsing

v) Anxietyvi) Depression

C) other factors that lead to excessive usei) Gender: Male, female

ii) Geography/ Community : rural, urbaniii) Purpose: games, chat etc..

EXPERIMENTAL:

• Tries to find the correlation among a) factors that lead to excessive use

b) factors that evolve due to excessive use

Cognitive-Behaviour Social-Skill Social-Cognitive

Mood Modification 20 24 16

In-tolerance 17 30 29

Withdrawal 24 26 20

Anxiety 13 09 25

Depression 26 12 10

Methods of Research

•Online survey:

procedure: a) Division of youth into strata or quotas based on gender and then age b) Preparation of separate questionnaires c) setting up the survey questionnaire on SNS and mailing d) Collection of data.

• Results to be achieved: 1) Traffic in SNS 2) Relationship establishment

Tools Used for Gathering Data

• Primary Data:Surveys

• Secondary Data:Already Conducted surveysOnline publicationsLiterature review

Some facts out of our Primary research:• Almost 94% use Social networking sites, the remaining 6% youth don’t use due to

lack of knowledge about them and include youth in rural areas.

• Most of these 94% people spend atleast an hour to four hours in SNS which include Whatsapp.

• 50% of youth do Online Gambling

• 90% think that overuse may lead to addiction.

• 60% feel that the addiction affects mental behavior starting with anxiety.

Frequency of usage of SNS

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Find outs from secondary source:

Conclusion and Analysis

• After the research, we can conclude with utmost certainty that Social Media indeed leads to Mental Disorders.

• We can also conclude that everyone is connected to social media in one way or the another irrespective of caste, creed, gender etc.

• We used both primary data and secondary data to conduct our research. Primary data included Online Surveys and Secondary data included Already Conducted Surveys, Online Articles, Other Online Publications etc.

• Excessive use of Social Media is the reason behind various ailments and has ill effects like anxiety, social awkwardness and decreased productivity.

• Social Media was introduced to help people stay in touch with each other but it is turning out to be a curse instead of a blessing.

Remedies and Solutions

• Firewall: A Firewall is a filter which is put on by the Internet Service Provider to restrict the use of a few websites. Social Networking Sites can be put under Firewall in order to restrict it’s usage. Educational institutions usually put up such firewall to not let students use SNS. For Example : Christ University.

• Counsellors : It’s high time to address the problems caused by Social Networking Sites as they take up a substantial part of our day. Counsellors should be provided to the people who are facing problems like anxiety, social awkwardness, dual personality disorder, bi polar behaviour etc.

• Personality Development Classes: Our research also found out that the reason behind excessive use of Social Media is that people often find it difficult to speak in public and/or face-to-face. Instead of choosing Social Media as the last resort, people should take up PD classes to be able to convey their thoughts properly.

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