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A social networking service is an online platform that people use to build social networks or social relationships with other people who share similar personal or career interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections. This is a list of notable defunct social networking services that have Wikipedia articles.
However, looking exclusively at the effect social media usage has on girls, there was a strong association between using social media and poor mental health. [46] [47] The evidence, although of mainly low to moderate quality, shows a correlation between heavy screen time and a variety of health physical and mental health problems. [7]
Experts from many different fields have conducted research and held debates about how using social media affects mental health.Research suggests that mental health issues arising from social media use affect women more than men and vary according to the particular social media platform used, although it does affect every age and gender demographic in different ways.
Diagnosed with schizophrenia as a child, Lake continued to make movies into the 1960s and 70s before her death in 1973. She continues to be a revered Hollywood icon. Veronica Lake circa 1950
Regarding posthumous diagnoses: only a few famous people are believed to have been affected by schizophrenia. Most of these listed have been diagnosed based on evidence in their own writings and contemporaneous accounts by those who knew them. Also, persons prior to the 20th century may have incomplete or speculative diagnoses of schizophrenia.
As social networking sites have risen in popularity over the past years, people have been spending an excessive amount of time on the Internet in general and social networking sites in specific. This has led researchers to debate the establishment of Internet addiction as an actual clinical disorder. [59]
It seems, at least from one study, that employers do, indeed, have reason to be concerned. A survey from Hearst Communications found that productivity levels of people that used social networking sites were 1.5% lower than those that did not. [20] Logically, people cannot get work done when they are performing other tasks.
'This will turn out to be the most important break in the disease,' the Broad Institute's director Eric Lander said.