THE SOCIAL PARANOIA A DOCUMENTARY ON THE MENACE OF SOCIAL MEDIA

Abstract

Social media usage is now increasing many folds due to the advancement in technology and increased globalization. The ease it brings to human life costs us some repercussions. Unchecked non-productive and excessive usage of social media is now impacting our lives at a riskier level. People started believing the unrealistic self created social media life as the ultimate reality and so further molding their lifestyle according to this artificial social media reality. The comparison made by people with others over social media makes them more conscious of their own life leading them towards their efforts of bringing change in their own life in order to cope with the unrealistic social media life. Once these self-conscious feelings take over the human mind, people start to adopt any possible ways to feel confident in themselves. This confidence is considered to be obtained by reaching close to perfection which is self created and materialistic. Slim curved body shape is idealized and liked for females by most people over social media so girls are specifically inclined to have fitness and slimming craze so that they can like more over social media. This leads to eating disorders damaging the internal system as well. All these efforts make people paranoid of social media usage forcing them to have a belief of perceiving the use of social media as essential for their survival in this self-created artificial social media world.