These are 8 reasons why social media can make your life unhappy

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Today's use of social media is rampant. Social media makes it easier for us to share and connect to anyone and anywhere. But, it turns out that social media can also make us less happy, you know. You must have felt it too. Here are some reasons social media can make us less happy.

1. Reducing productivity.

Social media spends a lot of your time in vain. Social media spends a lot of your time in vain. Social Media Today data shows, the average time someone spends on social media is 2 hours / day. This includes when in the commuterline, office, or at home.

This does not cause problems if we can manage time well. But if we have a job that requires high focus and accuracy, then of course our time is wasted just because we are fixated on social media on our smartphone. This causes a decrease in work productivity.

2. The Need for Recognition.

Social media users will get used to it and end up being addicted to recognition from other social media users. Recognition can be in the form of likes or comments. Research conducted by Adam Alter, a professor from New York University revealed that when someone gets a love in social media, they have feelings of pleasure and satisfaction.

The feeling of pleasure comes from the dopamine hormone which is produced when someone gets fun things like taking drugs, drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes and including getting " l ike " from fellow social media users.

3. Feel isolated.

Many people have thousands of 'friends' on social media but feel lonely in their daily lives. A study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine interviewed 1,787 adults in the US how often they used 11 popular social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat.

And the result is that people who use social media more than two hours a day tend to feel twice isolated socially than those who "play" on social media for only 30 minutes a day.

4. Make 'distance'.

Social media draws far away but also keeps close ones away. Even if you are addicted to social media rather than spending time with your lover, then your love relationship is threatened with failure. This is in line with research conducted in 2013 by researchers from the United States.

The study examined 200 active users in Facebook's social media and 500 active users on Twitter social media. As a result, users who are more active with social media report more conflicts and problems in their relationships.

5. Apathy.

Social media can make people no longer care about their surroundings. Shannon Poppito, a psychologist at Baylor Medical University in Dallas stated that someone who spends more time on social media, they will disconnect from real life and eventually feel less connected with themselves.

6. Bulk 'Weapons'.

There are certain parties who use social media as a tool to herd public thinking with negative content. One of the content is hoax news . Director of Cyber ​​Criminal Investigation Criminal Investigation of the Indonesian National Police Brigadier General Mohammad Fadil Imran stated that almost 91 percent of hoaks news that was distributed contained social and political content.

7. Not all things on social media are true.

Many people try to look happy and fine on social media, when in fact they don't. And not everything that is on social media is true. A survey of HTC manufacturers in the UK found that around 2/3 of people on social media made their profile photos more attractive to people.

8. Comparing Life with others.

People tend to share things that are happy on their social media, such as luxury, holidays, comfort and so on. This will make you compare your life with these things. This makes a person have a tendency to be jealous. Research from the University of British Columbia surveyed more than 1,100 Facebook users, and found all users had a potentially jealous reaction.

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