Title: Impact of social media addiction
Nowadays, lots of people can't leave far from the social media. They always hang on the social media anytime, anywhere, since they enjoy using their social media to post some articles, chat with friends or watch videos. Most of the time, they have addicted to the app unknowingly. There are three bad outcomes of using social media too much.
First, social media will distract people from their work, especially are students or office workers. It leads to a significant decrease in study and work efficiency. According to the research, people are very depended on mobile phones. They check whether there is a message on the mobile phone almost every 1-2 minutes. Sometimes even if the mobile phone does not vibrate at all, they will check it subconsciously. This behavior is called FOMO, which is also regarded as a kind of mobile phone addiction! Although browsing social media is a kind of relaxation, addiction often makes people lazy. In another word, it will make students reduce their learning time to get a good grade, and employees cannot complete their jobs well, either.
Second, the cyberbullying and sour people culture develop a lot in recent years due to social media addiction. Cyberbullying has become a serious issue in society, and many people choose to commit suicide because of it. The bullies gradually become unscrupulous because of their excessive addiction to the Internet world. What’s worse, bullies don't even have to reveal who they really are. They can shamelessly humiliate and insult their victims. Since they bully others without seeing each other in person, their psychological barriers are relatively lower. They felt no pity or remorse, and it makes the victims suffer from drastic treatment and attacks. Also, the negative news will affect our mood as well if we are always contacting to these horrible things or be within one of the victims. These negative incidents must be an impact to our daily life.
Third, people who overuse social media are more possible to be misled by the wrong information on it. The proper noun “ichiokusohakuchika” means that many companiesput the advertisements, news or other programs on the social media to brainwash the audience, instill political thoughts, and deviant concepts, and it is easy to make viwers "idiotized". Total idiotization was quickly studied by sociologists in various countries, and this term was also added to the education by many countries. Therefore, as people become more addicted to social media, it causes us to gradually lose the ability to read media. So that, Researchers put forward this idea, and remind the users not to be easily influenced by the media. Being a smart person to distinguish the wrong things is the best way of avoiding to be "idiotized".
In conclusion, the three impacts of social media addiction: It will distract people from their work, then cyberbullying and sour people culture make us depress, and the total idiotization also reduce our ability to distinguish right or wrong. The three outcomes of social media addiction have a negative way of our life, especially for such social events are also emerging in an endless stream. We should have our mind on controlling the use of social media without addiction! If you feel it is still difficult to leave social media, just turn off the notice or even delete the social media! Remember the most important thing, you are controlling the net, don’t let the net control you.
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