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Changes in mood
Many teenagers suffer from sleep deprivation as they spend long hours at night on their phones, and this, in turn, could affect grades as they will be tired and unfocused in school. Social media has generated a phenomenon known as " Facebook depression",
which is a type of depression that affects adolescents who spend too much of their free time engaging with social media sites. "Facebook depression" leads to problems such as reclusiveness which can negatively damage
ones
health by creating feelings of loneliness and low self-esteem among young people.
At the same time,
a 2017
shown
that there is a link between social media addiction and negative mental health effects.
In this study, almost 6,000 adolescent students were examined using the Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale. 4.5% of these students were found to be "at risk" of social media addiction
.Furthermore
, this same 4.5% reported low self-esteem and high levels of depressive symptoms...