Social Media and Mental Health
Social Media and Mental Health Image Source: Giphy The first article I read was the Help Guide s article called Social Media and Mental Health . This article talked about the importance of social media, how it can effect someone negatively and how social media can be a positive influence on people when not overused. What I loved about this article was that it gave great breakdowns for positive and negative uses of social media, other causes of unhealthy social media use, signs that social media is impacting your mental health, modifying social media use to improve mental health, and ways to help a child or a teen with unhealthy social media use. The reading was very interesting but it did not make me think in a new way, what I will say is that it enhanced what I already knew and gave great examples for ways to handle social media both positively and negatively. One thing that did stick out to me was this image below. The image stuck out to me because if someone was just scro...