Interesting facts about social networks: how they affect health and psyche

Social networks have become a fairly large part of our time. Fifty percent of the population is on at least one social network. On average, people spend two hours a day chatting with their virtual friends. Someone comments on posts, someone rewrites, someone uploads photos, and rare people just scroll through their news feed.

Social media seems to — it's convenient and safe, but there really disappointing facts about social media and their impact on human health. The editors of estet-portal have collected the most interesting facts and present them to your attention.

• Why Social Media Negatively Affects Sleep
• How do you voluntarily lower your self-esteem
• How can you lose your career because of stupidity
• Fun Facts About Social Media: You Don't Suspicion Such Numbers

Why Social Media Negatively Affects Sleep

Tell me, which of you flips through the news feed before going to bed? If you are among those who answered "yes", then we have bad news. If you feel tired and  broken then the social media is to blame. The blue light of the screen irritates the brain receptors and leads to sleep disturbance.

The body is designed so that the sleep hormone — melatonin — produced only in complete darkness. The most active time in which the hormone is formed in the body — from 12 to 4 hours. Therefore, it is especially important to sleep at this time. And don't believe the claims that an hour of sleep during the day equals two hours of sleep at night. You don't get  melatonin from daytime sleep.

Try to turn off your phone a few hours before going to sleep. Then the quality of your night's rest will be much higher.

How do you voluntarily lower your self-esteem

Glossy magazines featuring skinny models with perfect skin have long been recognized as a source of low self-esteem. Now social networks have been added to them. Thanks to dozens of retouching applications, good angles and lighting, you can get unrealistic photos. They make others jealous, feel ugly.

Sweden conducted a survey among thousands of women who use Facebook. The results showed that half of them feel oppressed. Sociologists announced the reason: this happens because women compare other people's career and personal achievements with their own. And the latter are often not in their favor.

However, it's funny that if you flip through not someone else's feed, but your own profile on Facebook, then self-esteem will increase, because there there will be no visual social standards. In the profile you can decide for yourself how you will look to others.

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How can you lose your career because stupidity

In the USA fired teacher Lydia Ferguson for photo in short skirt and heels. Although the       exposed underwear or private parts of the body did not get into the picture, the school authorities considered it provocative.

So they did             a a young teacher of drawing in a Russian school. Daria Puchkova published photos in BDSM style, which caused dissatisfaction with the parents of her students. Although the district committee on education said that there was nothing criminal in the photo, Daria nevertheless quit.

Justin Sacco's tweet in 2013 caused a flurry of condemnation. She allowed herself a racist remark. The girl flew to Africa and wrote before the flight: “I hope I don’t catch AIDS there. Okay, I'm kidding. I'm white. The plane had not yet managed to land in South Africa, and the scandal had already flared up. As a result, InterActive Corp fired the girl.

Remember that if you you lose your career in an instant.Before posting a hot topic, think thrice what they will say at work. And don't post a provocative statement.

Read also: How to overcome social media addiction and start living

Fun facts about social media: you don't suspect numbers like 

• If you think of Facebook as a country, then in terms of numbers it is capable of catching up with China. The social network has more than a billion registered users.

• Every second there are 8 new profiles in social networks. The number of users is growing at a crazy rate.

• FAD — Facebook Addiction Disorder — It's called a mental disorder. People with this syndrome are afraid that something will happen to their account. Such users are 35%.

• 20% of children who have social media profiles spend 24/7 on         

• 15% of users use their accounts solely to follow friends and acquaintances. And never share information about themselves.

Social media can do more than just harm. Do you know the phrase "power of Facebook, help"? She appeared out of nowhere. Word of mouth also works on the Internet. Virtual friends are more likely to respond to requests for help than friends from the real world.

Thanks to social networks, you can build up useful connections, build your image, develop your brand, share experiences. Main — adequately evaluate all the information provided by social networks.

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