How Does Social Media Negatively Affect Mental Health

https://www.mcleanhospital.org/essential/it-or-not-social-medias-affecting-your-mental-health

This informative article aims to focus on the negative effects social media has for those using and ways to overcome it. The Harvard Medical Program argues that social media has shown that it can lead to a variety of mental health issues such as anxiety/depression and FOMO (fear of missing out), yet there are ways to still overcome these challenges. Overcoming it by setting a time restriction towards social media and re-teaching a healthy media use. Overall, the source provides a factual standpoint in supporting my research that social media has prolonged negative effects on a younger audience. This article conducted experiments supporting the aim that social media takes a toll on kids.

https://etactics.com/blog/social-media-and-mental-health-statistics

This informative blog aims to inform readers on the greater percentage of social media users and the effects it has specifically on a younger audience. Shafer states the greater use of social media has a greater influence on younger kids causing common mental disorders such as depression. In this way, it affects everyday encounters such as socializing and connecting with others. This source provides lots of generalization that can be reliability information by using many statical data making the source very useful for my research topic.

https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/uk/17/12/social-media-and-teen-anxiety

This informative article/blog targets teenage social media user and focuses on the anxiety perspective that social media causes. This article focuses on the causes, effects, and challenges teenagers face. It allows readers to understand the relatability that many teenagers face because of social media. This article correlates to my research topic and allows my research to have a wide range of sources as this one is structured like an article but includes comments from readers to appear like a blog.

Further Research

https://damorementalhealth.com/social-media-and-body-dysmorphia/

This informative article aims to portray body image struggle social media causes directed to particularly everyone, as it affected most social media user especially during lock down from Covid-19. This article explains how body dysmorphia started, the effects of it, signs of it, and related disorders that come along from it. This source can be useful as it focuses on a different perspective on the negative effects social media causes. While my other sources focus on FOMO, anxiety, depression, this source focuses on body dysmorphia.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1319562X21000103

This informative research study targets particularly any social media users and aims to explain the sleep issue social media causes. This research experiment is a great source where it differs from the articles or blog previously used. Its goal is to see the effects it causes which the findings concluded it negatively affects learning activities and delayed bedtime. This research study is a different outlook from my other sources and focuses on a different perspective than my other sources.