AIMAN INAM

FLORIDA: The world is on the cusp of digital revolution and regarding this innumerable studies are being conducted.

A recent study has contradicted the belief that extreme use of social media triggers mental chaos.

As a matter of fact, not the sum of time we spend on social media but the ways young folks use it might cause mental health mayhems.

Savants are of the view that vaguebooking (social media posts) harbors unclear and bogus but sensational, sort of cry for help like stuff and this is, in fact, associated with suicidal thoughts.

In this connection, the study lead author from the University of Central Florida (UCF), Chloe Berryman stated that the major motive of the research was to focus on the behavior of individuals instead of pretending social media to be the wreak of all socio-personal concerns.

For carrying this study out, academics have been through the records of some 467 young adults. They have been canvassed apropos their social media usage, personal and emotional lives.

Moreover, the participants were also asked about the levels of their anxiety, aptitude to empathize, occurrence of suicidal thoughts as well as family and social support networks etc.

Their ramifications revealed that those, who wrote distressing posts, have been reported with suicidal thoughts. Besides, no link was found amid the time spending on social media and symptoms of psychological distress.

It is pertinent to mention here that those folks, who feel lonely and heartbroken, are more prone to open up about goings-on in their personal life upon such sites.

Their up shots have been reported in the paper published in the journal Psychiatric Quarterly.