This document examines the effects of excessive social media use on mental health. Through a literature review and online surveys, it finds that most youth spend 1-4 hours daily on social media and that overuse can lead to addiction, anxiety, decreased productivity, and dual personality disorder. Both primary data from surveys and secondary sources show that social media is highly connected to mental health issues when overused. Potential solutions discussed include implementing firewalls in schools, providing counseling, and encouraging personality development classes to reduce social media dependency.

1. CAN EXCESSIVE USE OF SOCIAL
MEDIA CONTRIBUTE TO
ADDICTIVE BEHAVIOURS OR
MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES

2. Objectives
• Comparative study of positive and negative aspects of social media.
• Identify and categorize addictiveness to social media.
• Effects of social media on mental health.
• Reasons for people to get addicted.

3. SCOPE
The study relates to the effect of negative aspects of social media’s
contribution to the human behaviour on the youth population of
Bangalore.

4. Definition of the terms

5. SNS (Social Networking Site):
• Social networking is a global revolution, enabling around a billion
people worldwide to stay in touch with their friends, share
experiences and photographs and exchange personal content. In
many ways it has replaced the telephone and email.
• Various social networking sites are also valuable tools used by many
companies and individuals to extend their contacts and deliver
marketing messages.
• Include Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Whatsapp mainly for research.

6. SOCIAL MEDIA
• Social media are computer-mediated tools that allow people
to create, share or exchange information, ideas, and
pictures/videos in virtual communities and networks.
• Social media are different from traditional or industrial
media in many ways, including quality, reach, frequency,
usability, immediacy, and permanence.

7. • ADDICTION :
It is a psychological feeling of dependence. It is a state of being
enslaved to a habit to such a state that its cessation causes serious
trauma.
• SOCIALISATION:
It is a general term for the many different ways and processes by
which children come to be able to function as members of their
social community. It is in part a process of learning and in part a
process of being taught, but modern views of socialisation also
stress the active role of children in making sense of their social
world, and constructing their own ways of being part of their
social group.

8. • MENTAL ILLNESS : It is a hostile feeling in the mind where its
further stage leads to serious trauma to the person.
• Online Gambling: the act of gambling using internet mainly
SNSs.It is the act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning.

9. Assumptions

10. Basic Assumptions
(Facts taken out of
already conducted
researches)..
2. Overuse/Addiction of
anything has ill effects.
1. Everyone is Connected to
Social Media

12. HYPOTHESIS
(Excessive use of Social
media lead to)
Social Awkwardness
Unproductivity or Reduced
productivity
Anxiety
dual-personality disorder

13. Ways Social Media Affects Our Mental Health
 Social media is addictive.
 Social media makes us compare our lives with others’.
 Social media makes us restless
 Social media gives rise to cyber bullying.
 Social media can make us unhappy

14. Methodology of Research:
•Types of Research
•Method of research

15. Type of research:
• Descriptive:
a) factors that lead to excessive use
i) Cognitive-behavioral model
ii) Social - skill model
iii) Social – Cognitive model
b) factors that evolve due to excessive use
i) Mood modification
ii) Tolerance
iii) Withdrawal
iv) Relapsing

16. v) Anxiety
vi) Depression
C) other factors that lead to excessive use
i) Gender: Male, female
ii) Geography/ Community : rural, urban
iii) Purpose: games, chat etc..

17. EXPERIMENTAL:
• Tries to find the correlation among
a) factors that lead to excessive use
b) factors that evolve due to excessive use

18. Cognitive-Behaviour Social-Skill Social-Cognitive
Mood Modification 20 24 16
In-tolerance 17 30 29
Withdrawal 24 26 20
Anxiety 13 09 25
Depression 26 12 10

19. Methods of Research
•Online survey:
procedure:
a) Division of youth into strata or quotas based on gender and then age
b) Preparation of separate questionnaires
c) setting up the survey questionnaire on SNS and mailing
d) Collection of data.

20. • Results to be achieved:
1) Traffic in SNS
2) Relationship establishment

21. Tools Used for Gathering Data
• Primary Data:
Surveys
• Secondary Data:
Already Conducted surveys
Online publications
Literature review

22. Some facts out of our Primary research:
• Almost 94% use Social networking sites, the remaining 6% youth don’t use
due to lack of knowledge about them and include youth in rural areas.
• Most of these 94% people spend atleast an hour to four hours in SNS which
include Whatsapp.
• 50% of youth do Online Gambling
• 90% think that overuse may lead to addiction.
• 60% feel that the addiction affects mental behavior starting with anxiety.

23. Frequency of usage of SNS
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5
10
15
20
25
30
Within the
hour
hours2
interval
Everyday 2 days interval Weekly
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24. Find outs from secondary source:

25. Conclusion and Analysis

26. • After the research, we can conclude with utmost certainty that Social Media
indeed leads to Mental Disorders.
• We can also conclude that everyone is connected to social media in one way
or the another irrespective of caste, creed, gender etc.
• We used both primary data and secondary data to conduct our research.
Primary data included Online Surveys and Secondary data included Already
Conducted Surveys, Online Articles, Other Online Publications etc.

27. • Excessive use of Social Media is the reason behind various ailments and has
ill effects like anxiety, social awkwardness and decreased productivity.
• Social Media was introduced to help people stay in touch with each other but
it is turning out to be a curse instead of a blessing.

28. Remedies and Solutions
• Firewall: A Firewall is a filter which is put on by the Internet Service
Provider to restrict the use of a few websites. Social Networking Sites can be
put under Firewall in order to restrict it’s usage. Educational institutions
usually put up such firewall to not let students use SNS. For Example : Christ
University.

29. • Counsellors : It’s high time to address the problems caused by Social
Networking Sites as they take up a substantial part of our day. Counsellors
should be provided to the people who are facing problems like anxiety, social
awkwardness, dual personality disorder, bi polar behaviour etc.

30. • Personality Development Classes: Our research also found out that the
reason behind excessive use of Social Media is that people often find it
difficult to speak in public and/or face-to-face. Instead of choosing Social
Media as the last resort, people should take up PD classes to be able to
convey their thoughts properly.