Title: Social Media: Impact on human behavior and society
Headings: Social Media: Impact on human behavior and society
Social Media: Impact on human behavior and society
Piyushi Jain Follow
Pursuing PGDM in Marketing & Digital Marketing from NDIM and have sound knowledge in Digital Marketing
The good impact of social media:
The bad impact of social media:
Key Facts and Figures:
What effect will social media have on society’s future? How will it change how humans perceive the world?
Human Interaction
Self-Image
Flow of Information
Corporations and Customer Service
Published By
Piyushi Jain
Pursuing PGDM in Marketing & Digital Marketing from NDIM and have sound knowledge in Digital Marketing
Ekaterina Zizevskaia
Counsellor and researcher, M.A. student in clinical psychology

Content: The bad impact of social media: Face-to-face interactions which are necessary for development of personalities, learning social skills and communication skills, have been removed from the lives of people, especially younger generations. Children are having a difficult time interacting with others, which might lead to unsociable behaviour. Comparison with other lives has been made easy by social media. People become unhappy with their current circumstances, leading to problems with self-esteem and depression. Social media use has also been associated with cyber bullying and cyber abuse by anonymous users online, which leads to problems of self-esteem, privacy ,etc. Most studies have shown that, social media’s violent games result in increase in violent tendencies and behaviours in children. Social media has also been used as tool to spread negativity and rumors online which has lead to increase in the instances of violence in the society. For instance - Recently, the rumours of kidnappers over WhatsApp have led to deaths of innocent people in various parts of India. With social media it has become nearly impossible to avoid bad news and the negative influences on our lives.