Addiction To Social Media Analysis
Social media has become the main factor behind a lot of problems in the health of many humans. Addiction threatens people's' minds in different ways such as controlling their decisions, decreasing their productivity, and dispersing their attention (Sriwilai, 2016). Furthermore, social media has caused eating disorders for people especially among teenagers. Addiction and eating disorders have become a tremendous problem that needs to be understood by the society. Addiction to social media represents a serious phenomenon that can lead to many problems in a lot of various aspects in life. Most of the people who use social media are influenced by many factors such as restlessness, concern, severe gloom, and social incentive (Sriwilai, 2016).
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According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, by the end of 2008, 74% of American adults use their social media, where approximately 80% of American adults browse health sites (Korda & Itani, 2013).So, there are massive people access to health sites, that means people do not satisfy about their bodies. The body gain or lose weight is affected of understanding, conviction, and awareness by people (Posavac, Posavac,& Weigel, 2001). As you see, recent studies have shown the close relation between body image and social media, as the women who follow social media compare their bodies with the lovely women or famous women in social media, that leads to a disturbance in thinking about their body and eating disorders ( Perloff, 2014; Posavac, Posavac,& Weigel, 2001). For explanation, Some of social media presents fashion models body's for viewers in order to promoting some of its products, people generally interact with these bodies and they become convinced that the bodies which present on screens better than their bodies. Due to lack of conviction, people tend to buy some of medical products that it presents on screens for the purpose of weight gain or weight loss. In addition, most of the people do not know that these medical medications have side effects, it impacts on a lot of organs in the body or give excessive unexpected results. So, Social media has changed negatively people's understanding about their bodies, it makes people susceptible to obesity or anorexia. To prove, Social media has used many of the insinuations which make the viewers badly look to themselves that they suffer from a health problem, these insinuations (such as get rid of the fat, to get healthy body use what we produce) eventually lead to infection thinness (Levine & Murnen, 2009). People who spend most of their time on social media are
According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, by the end of 2008, 74% of American adults use their social media, where approximately 80% of American adults browse health sites (Korda & Itani, 2013).So, there are massive people access to health sites, that means people do not satisfy about their bodies. The body gain or lose weight is affected of understanding, conviction, and awareness by people (Posavac, Posavac,& Weigel, 2001). As you see, recent studies have shown the close relation between body image and social media, as the women who follow social media compare their bodies with the lovely women or famous women in social media, that leads to a disturbance in thinking about their body and eating disorders ( Perloff, 2014; Posavac, Posavac,& Weigel, 2001). For explanation, Some of social media presents fashion models body's for viewers in order to promoting some of its products, people generally interact with these bodies and they become convinced that the bodies which present on screens better than their bodies. Due to lack of conviction, people tend to buy some of medical products that it presents on screens for the purpose of weight gain or weight loss. In addition, most of the people do not know that these medical medications have side effects, it impacts on a lot of organs in the body or give excessive unexpected results. So, Social media has changed negatively people's understanding about their bodies, it makes people susceptible to obesity or anorexia. To prove, Social media has used many of the insinuations which make the viewers badly look to themselves that they suffer from a health problem, these insinuations (such as get rid of the fat, to get healthy body use what we produce) eventually lead to infection thinness (Levine & Murnen, 2009). People who spend most of their time on social media are