SOCIAL MEDIA

SOCIAL MEDIA

Social media are computer mediated tools that  allow people to create, share or exchange information ,ideas, and picture /video in virtual commination and network . social media is defined is group of internet based application that build on the ideological and technological foundation ,and that allow the creation and exchange of user generated content .Furthermore ,social media depend on mobile and web based technology to create highly interactive platforms through which individuals and communication share, co-create ,discuss ,and modify user generated content. they introduce substantial and pervasive change to commination between businesses ,commination and individuals.

Cyber bullying

The immediacy provided by social media is available to predators as well  as friends. Kids especially are vulnerable to the practice of cyber-bullying in which the perpetrators, anonymously or even posing as people their victims trust, terrorize individuals in front of their peers. The devastation of these online attacks can leave deep mental scars. In several well-publicized cases, victims have even been driven to suicide. The anonymity afforded online can bring out dark impulses that might otherwise be suppressed. Cyber-bullying has spread widely among youth, with 42% reporting that they have been victim, according to a 2010 CBS News report.

Photo-Taking = Eating Disorder

If you haven’t already heard, dwelling in food photography has been deemed a sign of mental illness. I’m not really sure about that but they sure look funny. Dr Valerie Taylor who published a study about food fetish spoke about this phenomenon in the Canadian Obesity Summit in Vancouver earlier this year saying that it could be a sign of eating or weight disorders.

To be fair, she also said that not everyone who does it has a problem with food, which is a good thing because the phenomenon is so widespread that some restaurants have started banning photography of their food in their establishments.

The negative impacts of social media.

In 2012, anxiety UK conducted a survey on social media use and its effects on emotions.

The survey found that 53% of participants said the change had been  negative.

Those who said their lives had been worsened by using social media also reported feeling less con0fident when their achievements  against their friend . 

Written by : Nur Hidayah Binti Sahari

Edit by : Farhana Salwa Binti Mohammad Mahzan.