Social Media and Its Impact on Human Behaviour
Social Media has given us new communication styles and plays a pivotal role in people’s daily lives. With its innovative capabilities, Social Media has brought people with common interests together and expanded the border of ideas worldwide. Getting introduced to the new ideas, different lifestyle patterns, and thoughts of people all across the world impacted human behavior more than ever.
Human behavior changes more frequently when they dabble with technology, particularly with social media. The excessive use of social media by people is gradually injecting an inflection into their behaviors.
Let’s look at the intensity of this social media impact. Here are some positive and negative effects of social media on human behavior.
Positive Impact of Social Media on Human Behavior:
- Provides creative liberty to people and allows them to share reviews and ideas as they collaborate with people who have a common interest.
- Introvert people are actively coming forward to showcase their hidden talents and unique ideas without fear of rejection.
- Helps to improve a person’s self-efficacy, boost their cognitive flexibility and self-control
- Easy to share and advocate their views that often curbed between the crowds, in the absence of social media.
- Connecting to long lost peers and people of their community.
Negative Impact of Social Media on Human Behavior:
- Cuts down the face-to-face interaction between people, which is necessary for developing personality, adapting to social skills and communication skills.
- Comparing the lifestyle with others’ lives makes people unhappy and dissatisfied with their lives and leads to problems with self-esteem and depression.
- The violent social media games provoke aggressive tendencies and behaviors in children.
- Hub of false and misleading news that creates chaos and causes an untrustworthy environment.
- Unable to avoid bad news or negative influences on our lives that cause anxiety, long-lasting psychological repercussions, and unbearable stress.
The extensive yet right social media usage makes it the most powerful tool to change potential people’s lives. It triggers and gives a boost to the raw talents by giving them an open platform.