SOCIAL ADDICTION

  WHAT IS Social Media Addiction in Teens and Young Adults? Social media addiction is behavioral disorder in which teens or young adults become enthralled by social media or social websites and are unable to reduce or stop their consumption of online media despite clear negative consequences and severe drawbacks. What Does Teen Social Media Addiction Look Like? It's known that teens and adults alike check their phones almost about 150 times a day, and it's been well-documented that our excessive use of social media and our obsession with our online appearance has had a significant impact on teens, including severe self-esteem issues and feeling of anxiety.      Social media not only promotes the decline in mental health for many teens, but it also becomes an easy outlet for online aggression and also cyber bullying further impacting a child emotionally damage. An addiction to social media may lead a child to struggle to engage with other children or people at a norma...