Why Do Social Media Make People Feel Lonelier Instead of Connecting with Them?

Why Do Social Media Make People Feel Lonelier Instead of Connecting with Them?

Muhammad Hasyim 1 , Emerson B Cuzzamu2

TTASSH . 2022 March; 2(1): 18-24. Published online 2022 March

doi.org/10.36647/TTASSH/02.01.A005

Abstract : The article aims to fulfil the requirement by identifying how social media is enhancing loneliness among people instead of connecting people. Increasing social media usage among teenagers, school students and college students is highly effective in their education. Furthermore, social media posts enhance the thoughts of comparison among people which negatively affects their mental health. Different features and posts of different social media platforms seem very interesting for students as well as adults who enhance the gap in their friendships and relationships. People start to spend more time on social media instead of having conversations with family members and friends and that enhances loneliness among them. Various secondary methods are used and identified that extreme social media usage has some crucial psychological impacts. There are many previously published articles that give accurate information about the impacts social media has on people's health. A few themes are created based on the findings where all the collected information is described with proper citation. It is identified that social media brings isolation and separates friends as well as family members which causes feelings of loneliness among people. Collected information and results are descriptively discussed in this study for a better understanding of the findings.

Keyword : Loneliness, Psychological Health, Social Media, Technological Devices.

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