How Social Media Affects Your Health: Impact of Mass Media on Perception, Mental Health, and Political Opinion

How social media affect your
health

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Different forms of mass media in society and their impact over person perception...................4
How everyday thinking is influenced by mass media in form of accurate and biased
information..................................................................................................................................5
Ways through mass media is influenced by political opinion.....................................................6
Presentation of Gender, Race, Social Class, Age, Disability and Mental Health give a
particular view.............................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Social media refers to a computer-based technology that can share ideas, information and
thought through virtual networks and is utilized by large number of populations. In present time
social media is highly used by people. There is high impact on the health of people due to regular
use of social media. There are many of health-related issues caused due to watching social media
for longer period. In this report, there is a discussion about different types of mass media output
which is related with opinions and views. There is also discussion about the ownership and
structure of mass media. There is also some description about the way to represent the situation
and its influence to public perception along with views within society (Gage-Bouchard, (2018)).
MAIN BODY
Mass media refers to the communication which is related to broadcast, written and
spoken and are reaches to a large audience. This involves television, movie, radio, internet,
magazines, newspaper, advertising and many more. Mass media can reach to large population at
short time. There is a high impact of this media over the large population. This can help to share
the information to a large population at a limited time. Social media is the part of mass media
that is highly effective in today's time with using internet. Several people get impacted due to
spending long time with it. Due to longer use of social media leads to create a various impact on
the large population. This can lead to creating an impact on the mental health of large population.
Social media can influence large population towards any positive or negative aspect. This can
make popular to any people overnight or can defame any celebrity overnight. Due to having
much power virtually this can lead to create an impact on mind (Alanzi, (2020)). This can also
impact the mental status of an individual or large population. Due to having high influence there
is need to use social media carefully. It should not be used negatively to spread fake news or hate
towards any specific people or category. There are mental health-related issues can cause to
having an impact over the perception or mental status. There are many mental health-related
issues like depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, eating disorder, paranoia and many more. These
can lead to create health-related impacts to the people. There are many health-related issues
caused due to the continuous use of social media which is either due to getting impact on their
mental health or to their physical health. Mass media lead to create an impact over a large
population and can create a psychological impact. It can change the perception of individuals or