Can Facebook Be Bad For Your Brain?

In this article from the Townsend Letters by Jule Klotter it talks about how social media can have adverse effects on your health. People are seeing that social media sites can have negative effects on both your brain and on your relationships with friends and family. In the article neurosurgeons are asked if social media is bad for your brain. Their answer, yes. They do beleive that prolonged use of social media sites can lead to stress and poor brain circuitry. It can lead to poor health like stress, depression and fatigue.

On another side social media can take away from your relationships. It can ruin how we communicate and how we interact with our family and friends. The human body requires stimulas and meaningful human contact. Interaction with others through social media does not fill this human necessity and therefore it can lead to bad things for society and even your health. All of these things combined show the negative affects of social media and how eventualy prolonged use of social media can affect society greatly.