Social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Whatsapp and MySpace allow you to find and contact any person, colleague, any old friend and any other relative. Using these social sites, you can also connect to a large business community, but such connections in your electronic environment can have a negative impact on your life. Let us identify six such negative effects.
1- Social Media Addiction
Different social networking sites and applications like Internet based Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter are the reason for the worst addiction to you. Due to this addiction, youths waste their valuable time during surfing on these social networking sites. In addition, this addiction is more dangerous for school going children who waste time of their important study. Thus it is necessary to track this addiction and correct it.
2- Cybercrime
Cybercrime is a growing problem nowadays. Misrepresenting your identity in the wrong way, and getting threat from others based on your mistakes can distract you. You may be mentally disturbed.
3- Privacy from social networking sites is affected
Social networking sites encourage you to make your personal life more public. If you post intimate and personal details of your life easily on social networking sites, then it can be misused in many forms. In addition, the things you post are available on these social sites indefinitely.
Most social sites allow their users to control all these posted things, which are not secure and can be misused as ads or in any other form.
4- Bad effects on health and life
Excessive use of social networking sites affects your mental and physical health. You can not eat your food on time and relax. Daily use of these sites has many adverse effects on your mental health, so that you are less inclined to make contact with people.
And Social Media Bullying has taken lives of Many People.
5- Envy of Social Networking Sites
In a joint study conducted by two universities to investigate the side effects of social networking sites, researchers found that after spending time on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, one in three people often compare themselves with friends,Feeling alone, disappointed or angry. This reduces their self-confidence, which creates a sense of depression and jealousy.
Social networking sites ruin people's relationships because people are jealous if they see their boyfriend or girlfriend exchange messages with others.
So it makes them doubt on one another and finally break their relationship.
6- Virtual Social Group
According to a research, differentiating between your virtual relationships and your good and true relationships made by the social media site makes it even more difficult for you. If you spend too much time on these less-meaning relationships, your family and other relationships are weak. In addition, such virtual relationships or contacts are fake, which increase mental stress and insecurity on your next real life.