What is Social Media Doing to our minds

Julia Bausenhardt - Artist Quit Social Media The Great Hack: https://www.thegreathack.com) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31yF8eJJ8z0 Jaron Lanier  https://ngathanblog.wordpress.com/2018/11/19/book-review-10-arguments-for-deleting-social-media-accounts-by-janron-lanier/ “pervasive surveillance and constant, subtle manipulation” “How do social media companies modify users’ behaviors? This question leads Lanier to give us a brief overview of what behaviorism is, and how this approach has become very influential in social media companies. In brief, behaviorism is a scientific movement that studies ways to train animals and humans.” What is Behaviorism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behaviorism “Phantom vibration syndrome (PVS). Which is a nothing but the perception of an addict person regarding the vibration of his cell phone (Drouin, et al., 2012; Rothberg, et al., 2010) any victim of PVS reflects obsession of frequent checking of social messages exhibits manifestation of anxiety caused by cell phones.” Certain people compare their lives with the immaculate lives of their friends. Dick (2013) reported with the use of free social networking services (Facebook & Twitter) people remain connected with friends and read productive content but at the same time lose a lot of discretion and privacy https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Shabir-Bhat/publication/323018957_Effects_of_Social_Media_on_Mental_Health_A_Review/links/5a7c9e97aca272341aeb7472/Effects-of-Social-Media-on-Mental-Health-A-Review.pdf Online Social Networking and Mental Health Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking In our recent study in a high school student population, we found a statistically significant positive correlation between depressive symptoms and time spent on SNS.3 Depression symptoms were quantified using the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II).  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4183915/ Pantic, Igor. “Online social networking and mental health.” Cyberpsychology, behavior and social networking vol. 17,10 (2014): 652-7. doi:10.1089/cyber.2014.0070 Facebook use predicts declines in subjective well-being in young adults. Kross E, Verduyn P, Demiralp E, Park J, Lee DS, Lin N, Shablack H, Jonides J, Ybarra O PLoS One. 2013; 8(8):e69841.