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According to Kelly Quinn, “the use of social media has become ubiquitous, with 73% of all U.S. adults using social network sites today and significantly higher levels of use among young adults and females." Social media sites have grown in popularity over the past decade, and they only continue to grow.
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.
Another issue in mainstream media is the usage of the filter bubble, a "bubble" that has been created that gives the viewer, on social media platforms, a specific piece of the information knowing they will like it. Thus creating fake news and biased news because only half the story is being shared, the portion the viewer liked.
Information cascades over social media and the Internet may also be harmless, and may contain truthful information. [ 71 ] Bullies use Google bombs (a term applicable to any search engine) [ 72 ] to increase the prominence of favored posts sorted by the most popular searches, done by linking to those posts from as many other web pages as possible.
Pakistan has asked a number of social media organisations to set up local offices within the country, but this is yet to happen. [ 1 ] Pakistan made global headlines in 2010 for blocking Facebook and other Web sites in response to a contest popularized on the social networking site to draw images of the prophet Muhammad .
Lal was arrested in September 2019 following the posting of a video on social media in which a student claimed that Lal had committed blasphemy against Muhammed. [85] [86] 2022 On 12 February, a mentally unstable man was beaten to death by a mob of over 300 in Punjab after a mosque custodian accused him of desecrating the Quran. The police ...
It is closely related to other forms of digital media overuse such as social media addiction or internet addiction disorder. Commonly known as " smartphone addiction ", the term "problematic smartphone use" was proposed by researchers to describe similar behaviors presenting without evidence of addiction.
Mashal Khan (Pashto: مشال خان) was a student at the Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Pakistan who was killed by an angry mob in the premises of the university on 13 April 2017, over allegations of posting blasphemous content online.