In today’s world, people are almost always glued to their phones, whether it be texting a friend on snapchat or viewing your favorite content creator’s new post on Instagram. Social media is everywhere, and it affects how we connect to each other, communicate, and how we go about our daily lives. Seeing everyone’s edited lives and feeling the need to fit in can make us feel stressed and not good enough. Scrolling through endless posts can mess with our emotions, making us anxious or like we’re missing out on stuff.  Social media impacts our lives in a number of ways, but these impacts aren’t always good, as it has been known to negatively affect people’s mental health. It’s like a tricky balance between staying connected online and taking care of our mental well-being. Social media isn’t all bad, but we’ve got to be mindful of how it makes us feel and how much we use it. 

The creation of this infographic was aided by a generative artificial intelligence tool, but was designed and fact-checked by me.