Do you resist the temptation to post every good event that is happening in your life? Are you someone who only spends a limited time on social media? Do you consider not using Twitter as your journal every day? Then these are the signs that show you are responsible for your use of social media. However, not everyone has that control over their use of social media. One thing you can do to reduce your use of social media is to improve your awareness of how social media is bad for your health.
Why Is it Bad?
Yes, it is a known fact that social media keeps you abreast of everything happening in the world and lets you stay in touch with your friends. However, there is a dark side to it. Let’s figure that out.
1. It Elevates Your Depression and Stress
Technically, most social media is there to keep you in touch with your peers. Everyone who updates their profile regularly prefers posting only the good stuff, albeit not real. You end up staying depressed and wondering whether you are living the perfect life or not. That puts you in a vicious cycle of dismay and agony. It is, therefore, important to consider how you are going to discriminate fantasy from reality and don’t believe everything that gets posted on social media.
2. It Puts You At a Risk of Having a Bad Posture
You are continuously on your screen, with your head tilted down and your back going in an uncomfortable curvature that puts you at a risk of having a bad posture. With a bad posture, many problems arise. For example, you end up having pain in your body parts, commonly your lower back and shoulder muscles. You end up feeling less confident, too, as you don’t hold your shoulders relaxed or your neck aligned with your backbone.
3. You Seek Competition Everywhere
When you see your peers posting only successful happenings, you are bound to think in a competitive mood. That puts you under the pressure of keeping up and getting more successful than them. If, by any chance, you are not able to outdo them, you end up getting a breakdown, and you think nothing is going right with you. That is why it is important to stop using social media or at least minimize its use of it to avoid such feelings of competition.
4. It Makes You Physically Less Active
Endless scrolling hours can really take a toll on your life. You end up staying on the couch for a long time without moving a leg, which puts you at a risk of leading a sedentary lifestyle, which is ultimately quite hazardous for your overall health. The addiction that comes with using social media is that you often end up ignoring major signals in your brain, such as hunger, thirst, and movement, and you end up putting yourself at a risk of developing certain diseases associated with it.
5. You End Up Eating Abnormally
Eating disorders and social media users are generally considered quite relevant to each other. It is because the use of social media is hyping up the unreal beauty standards that put us under the stress of looking to a set of a beauty standards that is not a real-life case in any scenario. That makes you eat abnormally, and you end up either getting too fat or developing an eating disorder on its own that is bad for you. It makes you less mindful of the food you are eating, so whenever you are eating something, you don’t consider much how it is going to affect your health. You may end up eating a plate full of fried potatoes all by yourself just as you scroll.
Final Word
As you can see, there are numerous negative effects of the use of social media, not only on physical health but also on your mental health as well. You end up having an unhealthy lifestyle, and eventually, you gain an addiction that is detrimental to your productivity, longevity, and overall happiness and wellness. That’s why it is important to be aware of your use of social media and limit its use.
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