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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.
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.
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.
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.
With the popularity of social media, individuals can easily access fake news and disinformation. The rapid spread of false stories on social media during the 2012 elections in Italy has been documented, as has diffusion of false stories on Facebook during the 2016 US election campaign. [43] Fake news has the tendency to become viral among the ...
Social media allows for mass cultural exchange and intercultural communication, despite different ways of communicating in various cultures. [226] Social media has affected the way youth communicate, by introducing new forms of language. [227] Novel acronyms save time, as illustrated by "LOL", which is the ubiquitous shortcut for "laugh out loud".
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 .
9 May incidents (Urdu: 9 مئی کے واقعات) generated trolling on social media which went haywire in country's political scene due to overemphasis on its condemnation by government and ISPR. Punjab Police decided to crackdown on accounts involved in trolling on various social media platforms.