Exploring the Influence of Information Cocoon on the Mental Health of Social Platform Users

Abstract

Today, with the rapid development of the information age, the network has become almost everyones habitat. While social media and the Internet bring users the pleasant experience of quick access to information, they also produce information cocoons. When users are still swimming in the ocean of interest created by big data, they are already unknowingly surrounded by limited and biased information. This paper will focus on the popular social phenomenon of information cocoon and explore its impact on the mental health of social platform users. The information cocoon includes the users automatic habitual information search and network big data analysis push under the guidance of their own interests. The combination of the two has successfully established a perfect interest barrier for users. When people are passively, actively or unconsciously imprisoned in the information cocoon constructed by the combination of personal reasons and external reasons for a long time, they will not only lose the motivation to understand and contact different information, but also due to the reduction of communication between different interest groups, the characteristics of alienation between groups become more and more obvious, forming a closed information space information cocoon. When trapped in the information cocoon, the users emotional and psychological care is guided and affected by the barrier, and its emotions are easily driven by the information content, which is difficult to realize and jump out of.