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Toxicity in Social Media, HOOK:
Social media significantly enhanced the…
Toxicity in Social Media
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Examples
Instagram promotes negative social comparison and hook them onto unrealistic ideals of appearance and body size and shape.
Celebrities on social media platforms are notorious for editing their faces and bodies to fit society’s idea of perfection.
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Background
What is interesting is how much the social media landscape has changed since it started. The best performing content on its platform today includes video and visuals.
Online social media platforms are arguably the most culturally significant technological innovations of the 21st century
The easy spread of data, information, and knowledge were expected to benefit the ability to foster informed decision making, cultural exchanges and the coordination of activities online and in the physical world
Unfortunately, social media has also significantly enhanced the reach and scale of harmful content including disinformation, conspiracies, extremism, harassment, violence, and other forms of socially toxic material
The numerous benefits include the wide distribution of content crossing geographic boundaries, and enabling interaction and exchanges that are nearly free of physical constraints except infrastructure
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Statistics
A survey done by ChildTrends, the nation’s lead nonprofit research organization, indicates that suicide attempt rates in teens rose by 25% between 2009 and 2017
researchers from a 2019 study of over 6500 teens found that spending more than 3 hours on social media per day increases the probability of teens struggling with mental health problems, including anxiety, antisocial behavior and depression
2021 study shows that using excessive screen time to cope with the pandemic correlates with worse mental health in college students
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HOOK:
Social media significantly enhanced the reach and scale of toxic content cyberbullying and harassment leading to negative effects on mental health