The Investigation of Relationship Between Social Media Use and Mental Health

Abstract

One of the topics of contemporary study is the effect of social networks on teenagers. Researchers have not made much progress in this kind of research. With the widespread use of social media, the impact experienced by teenage users has become increasingly significant. Teenagers' mental health is impacted, which makes them less eager to connect effectively with family and friends and causes them to spend the majority of their time on social networks nearly every day. The connection between internet users and teens is the subject of this article's study. This study used a questionnaire with random responses from teens of various ages as its research approach. Then the data after the teenagers answered the questionnaire were analyzed. Obvious results can be obtained from this. Social media can harm teenagers’ psychology and quality of life. In both charts, it can be observed that the older teenagers get, the more addicted they are to social media. And will do whatever it takes to complete the amount of social media usage every day. Parents and friends ignore it for the sake of activity on social media. These bad behaviors may stem from their sense of boredom and disappointment in real life, so they try to seek psychological satisfaction and escapism through social media. This mental shift can lead to further worsening of the problem.