Understanding Social Media Addiction
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Problem Statement
Addiction to social media is a very common phenomenon among young people.
adults, where it has been observed that communication with their environment is lost
social, for that reason, it has caught my attention to investigate:
What are some symptoms of addiction?
What are the causes and consequences of addiction to social media?
How to overcome this phenomenon?
General objective
To know social media addiction, to know some of these, their
symptoms, causes, and consequences, in order to understand their effect on the
addicted individuals, through research that is truthful and proven,
applying surveys to the 11th grade students of Instituto Monserrat.
Specific objective
Mediante encuestas:
Identify the symptoms that a person has when becoming addicted.
To know some of the causes that are linked to addiction to social media.
Indicate the consequences that this may bring to the lives of the people who
they have that addiction.
Formulation of Hypotheses
Symptoms:
Low academic performance
Isolation
Spoilation of activities
Behavior change
Causes:
Neglect of the parents
Family problems
Poor communication with their environment
Lack of attention
Depression
To have fun
Lack of activities
Effects:
It affects our sight
It affects our thoughts
Loses interest in communicating face to face with someone.
Quantitative Approach:
I used the quantitative approach since a measured result is desired,
statistics, with statistical method, to do this the will be counted the
responses from the investigated as a quantity is wanted.
Type of Research:
Descriptive: The phenomenon will investigate some reviews or traits of the
object of study specifically to the 11th grade students.
Explanatory: The aim is to explain the reasons why this phenomenon occurs, in order to
try to understand the reality in which we live.
Correlational: The research will address the causes and effects of the
addiction to social media.
Research Methods:
Inductive: It will be used to understand the symptoms, causes, and consequences in the
11th grade students.
Hypothetical: Hypotheses are created and as the research progresses, they are
discarding the ones that don't fit.
Synthetic: To study the research, I will immerse myself in various aspects or
topics that stem from the main theme.
Technique:
I used the survey because I think it will give us a better result than
with the interview. In addition, the opinion of several people can be obtained from
same time or on the same topic.
Population and Sample:
The topic for the research or the phenomenon to investigate regarding addiction to
social networks among 11th grade students of the Monserrat Institute
I will mainly work with those who are active on social media for more than 3.
hours.
In eleventh grade, there is a population of 32 students of whom
20 of them will be taken into account, having a percentage of 63% of that
population.
5 girls, 5 boys will be chosen, and the other 10 students will be selected in a way
random in gender and those who have more than 5 social media accounts will be taken and the
they take a lot of time.
Social Networks are sites or platforms that allow us to communicate,
entertain us, inform us, and interact with the people around us,
where ideas and feelings can be expressed. It also allows to get to know
different people around the world. You can post or share things, and
this can define you as a person. According to Conde Mirin (2013) 'The connection
among people, whether through their kinship, characteristics, common interests,
etc. In the time we are in, with a world that spins increasingly
more around technology, the Internet helps to multiply those connections by
ten.
There are people who use social media only to cause harm to others.
besides, for example, if someone posts a photo or just a phrase, there is
people who only criticize and with that can cause a lot
insecurities. According to Brogan Chris (2013), cited by Reina Stefany (2014)
he/she states:
There is a human being behind every tweet, blog, and email.
But something ironic is that sometimes those people who hurt us can be.
we, since at times we do not think about the damage we can bring or
in the consequences that may come to us just because of that
comment we made. And our anger can be such that we published that.
We comment and in the end we regret it, but it turns out that it is already too much.
afternoon. According to Bury Erin (2013), cited by Dorado Juanjo (2015), explains:
Don't say on the Internet what you wouldn't want exposed in an advertisement.
panoramic with your face on it
The Internet is a technology that has particularly impacted
young people and has provided them with many benefits. But some
people become obsessed with the Internet, they show themselves unable to
control their use and can jeopardize their job and relationships. This
the article addresses the issue of the inappropriate use of these technologies. Since
thanks to that addiction, adults and especially young people make use of it
incorrect and improper. For example, they use it for their own benefit. Today in
Nowadays, there are many people who are dedicated to scamming others.
the internet, first they 'get to know' each other and then they scam people out of a
exaggeratedly and in different ways.
Also, from a different point of view, many of these addictions are
they were presented mainly during the pandemic, as we were all confined in
our homes and at that moment is when the addiction to social media skyrocketed.
Thanks to this, many adults and especially young people prefer
to communicate via the Internet instead of doing it face to face. This too
generated many insecurities in young people since most of the photos or
videos that were published were using filters (either to change
his skin color or something about his face to make him look 'perfect' and then
when activities started to be carried out normally, it caused them
a lot of insecurity about whether people really knew what it was like
person. The networks that began to be used more frequently are:
Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, Omeggle, Tik Tok (was and is one of the networks
most used during the pandemic). Also during the pandemic, young people had to
to normalize receiving virtual classes which made us prone to becoming
addicted to these, academically speaking many students us
we accommodated these as it was easier for some to receive them virtually and
for others it was more difficult. According to Ramírez Gil Esmerald (2021), it states that:
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there was an abrupt migration.
towards virtual classes requiring students to use and engage more constantly with the
technology, and therefore, a risk of addiction in its use with its respective
academic consequences.
Symptoms of Social Media Addiction
To identify a person who is going through this stage or this addiction
to the Networks The following symptoms must be identified in social contexts.
in the individual:
Isolated from their social environment, as the individual prefers to spend time in the
networks that spend time with their family or friends.
Stop doing the activities that I normally did.
The behavior changes drastically.
Stop doing your hobbies or set aside the things you liked to do.
if the individual likes to draw or play an instrument, they stop doing it because of
his addiction)
If the young man studies, his academic performance decreases.
He finds it difficult to communicate (loses interest or forgets words, gets stuck on
moment to speak
There may be other symptoms, it also depends a bit on the individuals.
that not everyone reacts in the same way. Some listen and put into
Practice the advice of people and others simply do not listen when
They correct themselves and, instead of trying to get out of that addiction, they sink deeper.
in that world.
If a person wants to change and stop prioritizing social media
only to pretend to have a life that they do not, to show off things, to do
harm to people, due to personal dissatisfaction, due to low self-esteem, due to
depression, due to lack of affection. Because a person experiences these things is why they
they make people addicted to social networks. By making them think they have a perfect life,
when in reality it is not like that. If someone reflects on the consequences that
This can bring understanding that it is not worth going through all that.
Some of the consequences can be: It affects our sight since
spending so much time with an electronic device affects our health.
loses interest in talking to people or meeting with people.
Our surroundings can change our thinking to an incorrect one, etc.
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