The Impact of Social Media Addiction on Adolescent Physical and Mental Health

As social media has gradually penetrated into the lives of teenagers, its influence on teenagers has gradually become one of the topics discussed in society. It is said that technology changes lives, but the improper use of social media would bring negative outcomes to adolescent. Due to the late emergence of social media, there are not many studies on this, but it can be divided into positive and negative effects on teenagers. Generally speaking, the negative effects outweigh the positive ones. The existing literature rarely has a general overview, and most of it uses a specific aspect as a starting point to discuss. This paper adopts the method of literature review, the author takes social media addiction as the starting point of this paper after consulting the literature and summarizing and integrating the previous viewpoints to discuss the harm of long-term use of social media to adolescents’ physical and mental health. At the end of this paper, some specific measures are given.