Investigating Social Media's Impact on Teenagers' Mental Health

This report examines the significant influence of social media on teenagers' mental health, focusing on the challenges and effects associated with online platforms. It discusses how teenagers utilize social media to build communities through platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and others, and the subsequent impact on their well-being. The report highlights the pressures of seeking likes, the risks of online challenges, and the potential for excessive social media use to displace real-world interactions. It also explores the negative consequences, such as anxiety about online image, depression, sleep deprivation, and mood swings, and their effects on teenagers' mental health. The report emphasizes the importance of understanding these effects and promoting healthier online habits.

Teenagers can use social media to find community, but their mental health is often
negatively affected by this culture of comparison
Social media is is really challenging for teens nowadays. The teenagers are spending lot
of time on the social media. As teenagers spending their time on social media, they are cutting
from the real world. In real world they don't have any close friends, any close relations, and they
even don't spend time with their families. Starting with use of the social media platform. The
teens from 13 to 18 years old, find their community on social media. Like they use applications
available on internet which connect socially Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Tumbler, Whatsapp
etc. The teenagers have different impact of all these, because they consider the likes on social
media, as they have the craziness about the likes they get. They want more likes, this leads to the
curiosity among them, they some time takes the challenges on social media to get fame, but it's
too risky. Teenagers are using the social media limitless, which is harmful for them, because they
don't have interest in real world. Sometimes they miss the opportunity to feel the nature's view,
their families happiness, while busy in with their virtual community. The perfect photos, ultimate
contents, their posts on social media creates pressure on them. This leads to anxiety about their
image in the virtual world of social media, also the teenagers get depression, they suffer from
less sleep, sometime overeating, moodiness, their mental health could suffer from these factors.