Social Media & Your Mental Health

A wide-ranging volume that explains today's social media landscape and examines its ramifications for users. This selection of essays includes general background material and profiles of social media's major players, a close look at how being online excessively can affect your physical and mental well-being, digital relationship-building, and more.

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Social Media and your Mental Health is a wide-ranging volume that explains today's social media landscape and examines its ramifications for users. An even-handed selection of essays that neither vilify technology nor ignore the fact that it can have dire repercussions if misused, Social Media and your Mental Health includes general background material and profiles of social media's major players, a close look at how being online excessively can affect your physical and mental well-being, digital relationship-building, and much more. With timely pieces on unrealistic beauty standards, how digital content is skewing our political discourse, and scammers who prey on the elderly, Social Media and your Mental Health will be of interest to anyone who has ever shared a post or clicked a ""like"" button.