Social media has a lot of good uses like it increases connectivity with family, friends etc,adds creativity to our thinking as people can share their views and work with others but it has certain negative impacts as well.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.
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