{"id":16228,"date":"2017-11-08T12:24:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T06:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zovon.com\/?p=16228"},"modified":"2018-06-27T10:32:04","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T05:02:04","slug":"long-duration-social-media-engagement-affects-young-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/?p=16228","title":{"rendered":"Long-duration social media engagement affects young minds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Youngsters these days are investing most of their time in social media like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and so on. Most of the people are concerned about the mental health risk that are associated with excessive use of social media. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">A study was conducted on 467 young adults in which a survey was done, and people were asked questions like how much time they spent every day on social media, importance of social media in their day-to-day life and what are the ways to use social media. These people were also asked about the mental health issues like social anxiety, loneliness, decreased empathy and suicidal thoughts. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The researcher found a little association between the time spent by people on social media and mental health problems. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The main concern of the researchers was on the process called \u201cvaguebooking\u201d in which, an information is written in such a way that it grabs a person&#8217;s attention towards the post and develops a concern in the mind of the people. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The people writing sensitive posts were lonely and bear some deadly thoughts like suicidal ideation. The research reported that social media acted as a medium that said, &#8216;cry for help&#8217; for people, who were already suffering from certain mental health problems. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Chloe Berryman of the University of Central Florida said, \u201cOverall, results from this study suggest that, with the exception of vaguebooking, concerns regarding social media use may be misplaced.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">She finally concluded, \u201cOur results are generally consistent with other studies which suggest that how people use social media is more critical than the actual time they spend online with regards to their mental health.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Youngsters these days are investing most of their time in social media like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and so on. Most of the people are concerned about the mental health risk that are associated with excessive use of social media. A study was conducted on 467 young adults in which a survey was done, and people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12660],"tags":[1324],"class_list":{"0":"post-16228","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-health-news","8":"tag-social-media"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zovon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}