Academic Essay on the Negative Impact of Social Media on Youths
Jessie Zakhr
This is a sample piece from an Essay I wrote about the negative effects of social media on the mental well-being of young adults
A Mental Health Destructive Facility for Young Adults
Human beings are born with the natural urge to communicate, socialize, and build relations with other human beings. Over history, communication methods developed to help ease the connection created between people, from tangible ways such as visiting each other and talking face to face to the invention of social media platforms, which has proven a great success that it became an integral part of our society having a countless number of users. However, numerous negative effects on young adults are associated with the popularity and evolution of social networking platforms. The reason behind this is how excessively society sheds the spotlight on perfect-looking lives and sells them as the norm of Egyptian society. Although some people might think that social media would motivate youth to change their lives for the better, it can also be one of the greatest discouragement sources. Therefore, a policy for filtering harmful social media content should be applied to limit its adverse effects on Egyptian youngsters, such as depression, a hive mentality, and disrupted sleeping patterns.
The continuous exposure to the unrealistic ways of living of influencers, Egyptian slum singers, and actors on social media networks leads to youth depression due to their ego-depletion and distorted expectations from family. This results due to the comparison made between intended goals, especially in Egyptian society, which is considered a developing one, upon interpreting what is being posted as the norm. Ego-depletion, which has different severity stages varying from being slightly insecure about specific aspects to having completely drained self-esteem and mental exhaustion, occurs due to the unfair comparison human places their own life with another’s life, which drains their psychic energy (Huang & Fan, 2022).........
