Here's The Bad Impact Of Social Media For Health

Here's The Bad Impact Of Social Media For Health  

Here's The Bad Impact Of Social Media For Health - In the present era, almost everyone has social media. Social media and the human being into two almost difficult to separate. From the start of daily activities, feelings, until the little things in life uploaded to social media. We no longer need to visit each other in real life to know the news. All just one touch on a range of smartphones only. However, did you know that social media can damage the physical or mental health? How can our health be damaged by something that makes us always ' connected '? Following the exposure on the impact of social media is bad for our health.

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Social Media Impacts On Physical Health

1. Affect the Posture

A wide array of medical and scientific research has shown that people using smartphones more than four hours a day tend to have shoulder and backbone of the hunchback, a problem in the spine, and the feel of the neck pain and head more often of those who do not use the smartphone as often as this. This result is quite astounding, but it makes sense. While using a smartphone typically we more often looked down and be a slouch. Our posture changes, muscles, and bones in our body keeps changing.

2. It is difficult to sleep

One of the problems often encountered the millennial generation that is sleeplessness. Sleep is the most important factor in maintaining our health as a whole. In order to be a healthy and good quality of our sleep, our body needs to produce the hormone melatonin naturally. When we keep staring at the screen of a smartphone before bed, our bodies like he was looking at a landscape with a very bright light, so delaying production of the hormone melatonin and we will be hard to sleep or get sleep quality. As a result, we will easily feel the fatigue due to sleep deprivation.

3. Disrupt the eye health

Keep looking at the screen that emits radiation, of course, isn't very good for the health of the eyes. Smartphone emits a blue light (blue light), a very glare for our eyes. Staring at the screen of a smartphone before bed is extremely dangerous and may damage the retina of the eye. Blue light exposure on the retina can cause macular degeneration, such as deteriorating eyesight.
A number of eye doctors also stated that there is a relationship between the use of smartphones by cataracts. Patients who are younger still undergoing cataract growing each day compared to patients aged 75 years and over.

4. Problems with the fingers and Wrist

If you post any of your activities in social media or reply to each comment, you may be experiencing a problem with Your wrist and fingers. Often typing on smartphones will make the veins in your fingers become tense.

The Impact Of Social Media On Mental Health

1. Hooked on Social Media

Social media is like opium. Cannot be denied, a lot of people who are like ' bound ' with social media and could not be separated from him. A little bit is always checking his smartphone to see the latest notifications, or just simply have a look at the latest update-an of friends in the virtual world.

Moreover, nowadays almost everyone carries a smartphone to nowhere, so the more difficult it is to escape from the internet. Also, more and more people spend time online on social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Path, and more. For those who are very addicted to social media, of course, it will interfere with his personal life as in his work, physical activity, even relationships. These people tend to overlook his offline life and prefer to play online.

2. The negative emotional impact

Much of the reason behind people using social media. There is nothing to socialize, keeping in touch with friends and relatives, seek and share information, shopping, or just simply entertainment and diversion of tired of his life.

Social media may be beneficial for those who have the limitations of the in terms of mobility. By using social media, they are still able to connect and communicate with others. The Grandma and Grandpa can chat with her grandchildren, her husband who was working was placed outside the city even foreign countries can stay in touch with his wife and children. Friends of different countries can chat online. Although still interact with social media will not be able to replace the social interaction directly.

However, social media can also lead to stress and other negative emotions. Examples are crowded at this time i.e. the issue of cyber-bullying. Even people who don't know each other any time by simply posting a bully each other. This, of course, gives the emotional impact is not good. There are also people who enjoy fishing or argue that emotions are unhealthy about many things ranging from sports to politics. Debates like this can certainly invite stress.

3. Depression

The more we use social media, the more we are unhappy. One reason for that is because we often unconsciously compare ourselves with others. We compare our lives with other people's lives when we scroll feeds. In a study to see how we compare ourselves with others, either with the ' look up ' or ' looking down '. It turns out that these two types of comparison it equally makes people feel worse, and this is surprising because, in real life, only a comparison of the ' look up ' that makes us worse. It seems like any kind of comparison of anything in the world of social media leads to the depressive symptoms was observed.

It's no secret that activity comparing ourselves in this social media can lead to social jealousy. Confess looking at people holiday abroad, has a family that looks perfect, work in a prestigious venue, and so on can cause a sense of envy. And this is like a vicious circle, with envy, people want to make their lives look more pleasant, with the goal of making other people jealous, too. Be the envy of endless circles.

4. Excess Appetite

Currently, people easily upload everything in social media, including what they eat. For example on Instagram, photos with #foodporn or hashtag #instafood lot of milling about. As reported by the women's Health, photos of this food can activate the brain that makes us want the food and eventually force us to eat to excess. A research even revealed that just by looking at pictures of food alone can stimulate hunger.

What should we do?
To stay healthy using social media, here are a few tips that can be done.

1. Use social media while leisure only. Not to interfere with private life, work, or study.
2. Expand social and physical activity in the real world.
3. Do not waste the time to argue with other people in social media.
4. If other people's postings to social media make you depressed, the deactivation of your account, unfollow people that her postings make you jealous, and remember that social media is not a representation of real life.