SOCIAL MEDIA: BOON OR CURSE FOR YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH

Abstract

Social media has some positive goals, such as bringing people together globally, displaying stuff that people are interested in and offering never ending entertainment, but it also has drawbacks. Social media is to blame for making mental health issues worse. This article provides a summary of how using social media can affect young people's and teenager's mental health. It has been discovered that social media has a negative impact on young people's mental health in a number of ways including anxiety, depression, depression, loneliness, cyber bullying, harassment, loss of focus, body surveillance and self-harm, all of which contribute to mental health issues and an increase in the suicide rate.