With more people than ever before using electronics and social media – about one in four worldwide, according to Medical News Today – researchers are investigating how that kind of exposure impacts people emotionally and psychologically.
Polls conducted in 2011 at Salford University by a charity called Anxiety UK revealed that 53 percent of the 298 people who responded felt that using social media changed their behavior to some degree, and of those, 51 percent believed it was for the worse.
“If you are predisposed to anxiety, it seems that the pressures from technology act as a tipping point, making people feel more insecure and more overwhelmed,” said Anxiety UK Chief Executive Nicky Lidbetter in an interview with The Telegraph.
On the other hand, there are documented benefits social media users experience. An article published in the Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics in 2011 detailed how these digital channels promote easily accessible community engagement, like organizing events or raising money for charities, as well as enhancing individual and collective creativity because of their networking capabilities.
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