Social media collects data about who we are; It teaches us who we should be and what we should look like. How we should dress, how we should look, how we should take holidays, we act with the seeds of desire, desire and need planted in us. filters; “You must have a smaller nose, bigger lips and brighter skin, you are not enough just the way you are!” It can make us believe that we need to appear in a different way by giving messages such as: In other words, the use of social media increases the possibility of people having a negative body image (Calogero & Tylka, 2010). At the same time, it can create the illusion that everything is going well in everyone's life and that everyone is always happy and successful. Mercan (2010) states that social media can cause people to become alienated from their own selves because it provides the opportunity to assume a different identity. In short, social media seems to be distorting us with our own realities and the realities of life.
We can encounter a picture of addiction when it is used excessively. It is known that addiction to social media causes academic, relational, financial, professional and physical problems like any addiction. Criteria showing social media addiction are listed as follows: Excessive preoccupation with social media, using social media to reduce negative emotions, using social media more and more to get the same pleasure (development of tolerance), experiencing distress and restlessness when social media is not used, using social media. sacrificing responsibilities and/or other important life events for the sake of it (impaired functionality), unsuccessful efforts to control social media use, and reverting to previous use (Andreassen et al., 2017).
Young (1998); He states that marriages, romantic relationships, parent-child relationships and close friendships can deteriorate as a result of excessive use of the internet, and the time that addicts spend on the people they have close relationships with decreases as the time they spend on the internet increases. The efforts of addicts to hide their internet use and the lies they tell about it cause insecurity and arguments in their close relationships.
Social median Excessive use of the Internet can lead to many negative consequences such as inadequacy, perfectionism, self-alienation, and decreased self-esteem and self-efficacy. Therefore, it seems important to control what and how much time we spend on social media and the Internet, and to observe their effects on us with a conscious awareness.
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