A greater understanding of the risks can promote user moderation and assist software developers, educators, and politicians in finding solutions to minimize bad outcomes.
The majority of research on social media dangers has been conducted from a psychopathological standpoint. Researchers in information systems have paid them less attention, deputy head of the UTS Faculty of Information, Systems, and Modeling.46 negative effects, ranging from issues with physical and mental health to detrimental effects on academic and professional performance as well as security and privacy concerns, have been identified by a comprehensive assessment of the literature on the negative effects of social media use.
The detrimental consequences were categorized by the researchers into six them Cost of social exchange: comprises time, energy, and financial costs as well as psychological problems like melancholy, anxiety, or jealousy.
Content that disturbs, upsets, or irritates people is referred to as annoying content. Examples of this type of content include disturbing or violent, sexual, or obscene material.
Concerns about privacy include any threats to individual privacy associated with the collection, use, or exchange of personal data by third parties.
Threats to security include damage caused by fraud or deception, such as phishing or social engineering.
Cyberbullying is any form of abuse or harassment, whether it comes in the form of malicious communications, lying, stalking, or spreading rumors.
Negative effects on academic or professional performance are referred to as low performance.
Features • Much research has been done on the "bright side" of social media and how society is adopting it.
• Research attention on the equivalent "evil side" of social media has been significantly less.
• We develop the dark side honeycomb structure to examine the negative effects of social media.
• The framework discusses the multifaceted functionality of social media's negative aspects.
• We base our call to action for study on the negative aspects of social media in this paradigm.
This blatantly exposes the dark consequences and hidden purposes of social media that firms do not want their customers to understand. Social media apps keep users glued to their screens for the advantage of the business rather than serving as a space for interaction. It becomes even more obvious that social media is overrated when you realize its harmful and unhealthy mechanics.
The distraction that smartphones pose to our own social lives is another feature that consumers sometimes overlook. Personally, I have observed friends and even myself on numerous occasions avoiding social situations in favor of skimming through their feeds or viewing quick videos. For instance, in my school, most students sit in their seats before a class session starts, checking their phones instead.
