Today, social media platforms engage around 4.1 billion users, world-wide. The potential of social media is clear. With the passage of time, the personality and behavior of social media users is bound to change. Most recently, we've been using social media along with other platforms during COVID-19 to gather information, work from home, gather information and get by these tough times. Through this we can deduce that the power of social media, even reaches the behavior of people.
Although, this "digital ecosystem" has yet to cover rural areas as a whole, many countries are trying to provide facilities and urbanize these areas.
According to a recent study in developed countries, it was found that adolescents spent most of their time using new media as compared to any other activity, second only to sleeping. Persistent communication is the main motivation behind this obsession with media. Teenagers are constantly using new media for homework, socialization, and entertainment. Therefore, it can be said that they are under heavy influence of social media. People are influenced by all the attractive things and are molding their personalities accordingly. This leads to the influence of depression and anxiety because the only person they talk to is the internet.
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