How Social Media affects the Mental Health of Students

By: Nick, Nursen, Florentina,Erica

Mental health is a huge topic in todays world, Social media is too. How can social media and mental health go hand and hand? well we will explain this. From the positives to the negatives and what you can do to make sure yourself and your peers don’t fall down the social media trap.

Here are the top 5 reasons and ways in which you can be more productive and get off of social media so you are more productive and can feel mentally better compared to sitting on your phone on social media

This here is a video that does a great job on describing the affects on social media and how we can get off and when we get off of social media what happens and how we will feel mentally so much better and live a much less stressful life.

Here we have a video that is describing the positives and the negatives of social media and how it is linked to your mental health both in a positive and a negative way

Here is a podcast that Erica of the “Mental health warriors”, She asks many good questions about college students and the idea of mental health surrounding the students. Take a listen now!

We have a great video here from Nursen and Florentina, Title is Safe Space Talk, where people they know talk about how they feel about social media and topics related to mental health and how they use social media to interact with other people some even around the world in their hometowns.

Here is a twitter poll that was done by Florentina about how social media affects your mental health and how as a student you can feel a different way compared to those who are no longer students

This meme is showing us that we need to know when enough is enough while on social media. We may use it for news but most of the time we use it just to waste time and we could just delete it so we are able to feel better mentally.

Mental health in social media

Here is a Wakelet that I created to sow the impact of social media on students mental health.