Slows down progression of life
Take a look at your life since you’ve started your social media account. Has your life progressed in any way that you’ve envisioned it to be? Has social media uplifted you and taken you to greater places?
Destroys happiness
Every time you check your feed there’s always someone that’s living a better life than you are. That will always exist with or without social media. But what social media does, is it magnifies it to the next level.
Social media allows us to tap into the lives of Hollywood stars, and even your friends, that post some beautiful pictures of their lives, homes, kids, and travels that makes your spirit become small.
Lures you into unnecessary expenses
There’s always that one new gadget that everyone and their mom is buying online. Social media users are fanatics about this new gadget. It might be the new iPhone, the new Apple airpods, or some cool kitchen gadget that is a must buy. It’s so easy to go from social media to “add to cart” and “check out”.
Cyberbullying
Cyberbullying is on the rise amongst teens and that issue not talked about, addressed or taken seriously. The teenage cyberbullying is drastically on a rise due to the availability of social media. There is a direcet correlation on the effect it has on their social wellbeing, mental health and school grades.
Raises anxiety
The anxiety of missing out on the new feeds is high on a daily basis, so social media users check in every single minute they have from the time they wake up to right before going to sleep. Which leads to social media obsessions.
The list is pretty small to only have 5 social media side effects. In reality there is a hoast of side effects..but is anyone talking about this? Is anyone taking action?
How long will you allow social media slowly ruin your life?
