CAUSE_AND_EFFECT_FINAL_DRAFT.docx ENG-206H MWF950 A False Reality: How It Negatively Affects Mental Health Social media usage started in the early 2000s and has grown tremendously. In 2020, there are at least 3.5 bi
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CAUSE_AND_EFFECT_FINAL_DRAFT.docx ENG-206H MWF950 A False Reality: How It Negatively Affects Mental Health Social media usage started in the early 2000s and has grown tremendously. In 2020, there are at least 3.5 billion social media users (Ortiz-Ospina, 2019).The first thing many people do in the morning is check their phones, update their statuses or maybe share a post they come across as they refresh their timelines to watch the new posts they missed while they were sleeping. Friends go out for lunch to catch up, but while theyre waiting on their food to be served, theyre on their phones scrolling through their timelines instead of engaging in conversation. Isnt the point of hanging out in person to conversate and be engaged in thetime spent with other people? The answer to this new odd behavior is social media addiction. What is on social media that is causing people to become so addicted? Funny videos, Instagram models, pictures of acquaintances on their trip to Vegas, tweets made by famous celebrities. All of these posts are consuming the minds of humanity and manipulating people of a false reality.This has become a negative attribute to the world because researchers have found a significant increase in depressive behavior amongst people, especially teens and young adults, within the last 15 years (Neighmond, 2019). This statistic can significantly prove social media is making a detrimental effect on mental health. By diving in deeper to why social media is breeding this depression amongst teens an. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .
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