Social Media Addiction by Cody Tsai https://padlet.com/348613134/u14rsfi2cx2a9xla Grade 10 Careers en-us 2021-10-22 14:13:26 UTC 2025-11-06 15:50:19 UTC hello@padlet.com General Description 348613134 https://padlet.com/348613134/u14rsfi2cx2a9xla/wish/1836431995 Social media addiction is when someone has an uncontrollable desire to use their social media, as it is very common among teens. Many people especially teens spend a lot of time and effort in making it perfect as they get very concerned about their social media account. ]]> 2021-10-22 14:24:18 UTC https://padlet.com/348613134/u14rsfi2cx2a9xla/wish/1836431995 Signs and Symptoms of Social Media Addiction 348613134 https://padlet.com/348613134/u14rsfi2cx2a9xla/wish/1876554536 Signs:
- Feeling desperate to check on your account
- Refreshing your social media pages every couple of minutes
- Before you wake up and sleep you check on your account
- Stop doing a lot of hobbies to focus on social media

Symptoms:
- Anxiety
- Anger
- Boredom
- Isolation
- Depression
- Anxiety 
- Dissatisfaction 
- Defensiveness
- Mood Swings
- Fear
- Procrastination



]]> 2021-11-08 23:04:47 UTC https://padlet.com/348613134/u14rsfi2cx2a9xla/wish/1876554536 How does Social Media addiction affect a person emotionally? 348613134 https://padlet.com/348613134/u14rsfi2cx2a9xla/wish/1878364805 They get unsatisfied because they might see that somebody else is doing better than them in terms of maybe followers, likes, friends and it leads to depression, anxiety and stress over how they can compete with others]]> 2021-11-09 14:13:41 UTC https://padlet.com/348613134/u14rsfi2cx2a9xla/wish/1878364805 How does Social Media affect them physically? 348613134 https://padlet.com/348613134/u14rsfi2cx2a9xla/wish/1878370370 They could get really lonely because they don’t have any friends to talk to because they are always focused on themselves and they don’t bother talking to others until something bad or wrong happens.
If they worked out or played a sport before being addicted to social media, their physical activity would be decreased and that could lead to unhealthy eating habits which could lead to depression.
If they are a student, they will start to get poor grades and if they are a business worker, they will have a poor work performance. 
You will start losing relationships because you are always ignoring your real-life relationships to be perfect on social media and could lead in the future having no friends or family that cares about you.  

]]> 2021-11-09 14:15:21 UTC https://padlet.com/348613134/u14rsfi2cx2a9xla/wish/1878370370 How does Social Media addiction affect them socially 348613134 https://padlet.com/348613134/u14rsfi2cx2a9xla/wish/1878380545 They could get really nervous and they won’t know how to interact with people when somebody wants to have a conversation with them because their whole life is based on social media and not having conversations face to face. 
They will have no confidence when going out to meet new people because photos of themselves on social media and photos of themselves in real life aren’t the same which could lead to self-isolation as they would no longer want to see people because of the way they look in real life. ]]> 2021-11-09 14:18:10 UTC https://padlet.com/348613134/u14rsfi2cx2a9xla/wish/1878380545 348613134 https://padlet.com/348613134/u14rsfi2cx2a9xla/wish/1878397160 Social: Scared, Nervous, No confidence, Isolation, Bullied in school which could leave to Unhappiness and Self harm 

Environmental: Family and relatives around you are also addicted to social media, People you work with are always using social media so you get influenced to do the same.  

Physical: Loneliness, Hurts your mental health, decreased physical activity, ignoring real-life relationships, poor grades, poor work performance. 

Precursors:
1. Behavioral addiction
Behavioral addiction is the presence of psychopathologies such as depression, substance use, the lack of social support and social anxiety. 
2. Low family socioeconomic
Low family socioeconomic is when households don’t have much income or wealth as they don’t have any cushion against the negative impacts of an adverse health event. 



]]> 2021-11-09 14:22:47 UTC https://padlet.com/348613134/u14rsfi2cx2a9xla/wish/1878397160 Where can someone go to help in my community(Markham, ON) 348613134 https://padlet.com/348613134/u14rsfi2cx2a9xla/wish/1878932902 People who are dealing with social media addiction in my community and needs help can go to the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) where they treat all sorts of addictions including social media addiction ]]> 2021-11-09 17:08:32 UTC https://padlet.com/348613134/u14rsfi2cx2a9xla/wish/1878932902 Ways to help or support someone with social media addiction? 348613134 https://padlet.com/348613134/u14rsfi2cx2a9xla/wish/1879240215 1. Educate myself on what social media addiction is and how I can help them
2. Talk with them at school and try to interact with them more often
3. Find or offer them help to find a place where they can seek treatment or advice
4. Have realistic expectations, don’t be pushing yourself and the other guy hard if they decide they don’t want to do it or it’s not going to work out ]]> 2021-11-09 19:06:27 UTC https://padlet.com/348613134/u14rsfi2cx2a9xla/wish/1879240215 348613134 https://padlet.com/348613134/u14rsfi2cx2a9xla/wish/1879244334 2021-11-09 19:08:11 UTC https://padlet.com/348613134/u14rsfi2cx2a9xla/wish/1879244334 348613134 https://padlet.com/348613134/u14rsfi2cx2a9xla/wish/1879291463 Foothills at Red Oak Recovery offers many different tools to manage this addiction. Foothills at Red Oak Recovery's main goal is trying to bring a brighter future of real-world fulfillment to teenagers, beyond the limits of their Social Media experience. They are also trying to help make teenagers more engaging in the human world and not in the social media world. ]]> 2021-11-09 19:28:05 UTC https://padlet.com/348613134/u14rsfi2cx2a9xla/wish/1879291463 348613134 https://padlet.com/348613134/u14rsfi2cx2a9xla/wish/1879440127 Everyone has their own unique problem with their social media addiction so depending on how severe it is, they have one on one sessions or they have a group (5 people) sessions. Treatments for one on one sessions should have at least 20 hours per week and treatments for a group (5 people) sessions should have at least 30 hours per week. 
The average stay is usually 3 months but there is no timetable on how many weeks or months you should be doing the treatments as some people get rid of the addiction faster and some don’t. 
What they do is they do an equine therapy, equine therapy is for physical or emotional healing. Some activities they do are physical fitness and nutritional education. They also have an academic component where they give their clients the opportunity to stay on track with school, they also have different activities to help improve their family relationships and communication skills.]]> 2021-11-09 20:38:11 UTC https://padlet.com/348613134/u14rsfi2cx2a9xla/wish/1879440127 348613134 https://padlet.com/348613134/u14rsfi2cx2a9xla/wish/1879475221 Yes, we should work on our mental health as it is extremely important and we should take some time each day to focus on it. Taking some time out of our day to focus on mental health can prevent physical or mental illness as mental health can affect us every day. This helps us manage our stress, have better focus and have better decision making. Resilience is a very helpful tool as it gives us lots of strengths to help overcome hardships and can help protect you from mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety.]]> 2021-11-09 20:57:40 UTC https://padlet.com/348613134/u14rsfi2cx2a9xla/wish/1879475221 Did You Know 348613134 https://padlet.com/348613134/u14rsfi2cx2a9xla/wish/1879476287 2021-11-09 20:58:15 UTC https://padlet.com/348613134/u14rsfi2cx2a9xla/wish/1879476287