DANGERS OF SOCIAL MEDIA

5 Ways Social Media is Destroying Your Mind, Stealing Your Privacy and Affecting Your Health. Here’s The Truth You Need to Know!

The painful reality is that social media is messing with our heads. It steals our attention and causes mental harm.

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The negative aspects of social media

Prolonged screen time and use of social media can cause brain fog, anxiety, depression, and sleep problems, which can adversely affect our mental ability. With the rise in online and remote working, the need to “network” has never been as great. Many people have become reliant on social media platforms (Facebook, X, Instagram, Pinterest, and other apps such as Quora, LinkedIn, etc) to connect and network.

But are they “connecting” or damaging their brains and health? Studies suggest prolonged screen time has a detrimental negative effect on mental and physical health. Social media can turn into a toxic nightmare of dread, rather than a way to connect. Communication on sites such as Facebook is often shallow, involving meaningless trivial unstimulating conversations in Facebook groups. Bullying can also arise and this can result in emotional stress and unpleasant negative feelings rather than a feeling of connection.

5 ways social media is negatively impacting your life.

1. Attention and Time: Social Media and online sites steal your attention focus and time, forcing your attention on screen time and away from real life, no matter how damaging it is for your physical and mental health. We don’t have the attention span or time to deal with important real-life issues if we spend prolonged periods online and on social media. We become exhausted, burnt out, and depressed.
2. Social Media Steals Your Privacy and Personal Information: Social Media sites have our personal information (date of birth, where we live, email address, personal photos) and a host of personal information we trust to an anonymous online provider like they are our best friends.
3. Oversharing Personal Information: We trust total strangers with our private…