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    Social Media Acceptance: Mental Necessity of Today'S Generation

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    The document discusses how social media has become a mental necessity for today's generation. It summarizes several articles about the psychology and effects of social media use, especially among teenagers. The articles find that teenagers seek validation and approval on social media due to fear of missing out. Getting likes activates the brain's dopamine reward system, making social media approval potentially addictive. While social media allows community finding, it can also negatively impact mental health through constant comparison. Teenagers are motivated to use social media to socialize, get information, and create their online identity, but this can also lead to lying about one's actual life experiences.

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    The document discusses how social media has become a mental necessity for today's generation. It summarizes several articles about the psychology and effects of social media use, especially among teenagers. The articles find that teenagers seek validation and approval on social media due to fear of missing out. Getting likes activates the brain's dopamine reward system, making social media approval potentially addictive. While social media allows community finding, it can also negatively impact mental health through constant comparison. Teenagers are motivated to use social media to socialize, get information, and create their online identity, but this can also lead to lying about one's actual life experiences.

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    The document discusses how social media has become a mental necessity for today's generation. It summarizes several articles about the psychology and effects of social media use, especially among teenagers. The articles find that teenagers seek validation and approval on social media due to fear of missing out. Getting likes activates the brain's dopamine reward system, making social media approval potentially addictive. While social media allows community finding, it can also negatively impact mental health through constant comparison. Teenagers are motivated to use social media to socialize, get information, and create their online identity, but this can also lead to lying about one's actual life experiences.

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    Social Media Acceptance: Mental Necessity of Today'S Generation

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    The document discusses how social media has become a mental necessity for today's generation. It summarizes several articles about the psychology and effects of social media use, especially among teenagers. The articles find that teenagers seek validation and approval on social media due to fear of missing out. Getting likes activates the brain's dopamine reward system, making social media approval potentially addictive. While social media allows community finding, it can also negatively impact mental health through constant comparison. Teenagers are motivated to use social media to socialize, get information, and create their online identity, but this can also lead to lying about one's actual life experiences.

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    SOCIAL MEDIA ACCEPTANCE:

    MENTAL NECESSITY OF
    TODAY’S GENERATION
    Group 3
    CHAPTER TWO
    Review of Related Literature
    Foreign Literature
    It was said in an article entitled “Technology
    Trends: When Teens Turn to Social Media for
    Validation” by Knight (2016) that generation
    today has the tendency to seek for their own
    identity because of a lot of things going around
    them and the easiest platform for it is the
    social media. Teenagers these days seek for
    validation whenever they have to do
    something most especially when they are
    posting something in social media. It was said
    that they are into social media approval
    because of the fear of missing out and not
    being on the feedback loop.
    It was also said in the article “The
    Psychology of being ‘liked’ in social media”
    that was published in Start Digital (2017) that
    certain hormone that is being triggered
    whenever we get a thumbs up or heart
    reactions is called dopamine. Dopamine is
    responsible for the pleasure of our brain. It was
    said in the article that effects of social media
    likes are close to feeling of winning money or
    eating chocolate. This is the main reason why
    scientists concluded that seeking for social
    media approval could turn to addiction and
    appears to be a mental necessity.
    It was said in the article “Social Media and
    Teens: How Does Social Media Affect Teenagers’
    Mental Health” by Hurley (2019) that teenagers
    can use social media to find community, but their
    mental health is often negatively affected by this
    culture of comparison because nowadays, social
    media has a biggest impact for students especially
    this year that has so many cases about students
    who are suffering for being accepted in the society
    they are trying to do things to claim some
    attention from other people. Teenagers are using
    Social Media because it helps them to be more
    updated, to socialize, and to gain more
    information about new things that is happening in
    this world.
    Local Literature
    According to the article entitled “Epekto ng
    Social Media sa isip” by Magallanes (2016),
    social media hooks up with also the users
    emotions, that is why they tend to use social
    media more often because of thinking and
    concluding that they are more expressive there
    than elsewhere. It was also explained that using
    social media keeps users in touched with how
    everyone else feel, giving them the mental
    illusions that using social media is also
    important.
    It was also said in the article “Laging Online:
    Ano Nga Bang Epekto Ng Social Media Sa Iyong
    Teenager?” by Bon (2020) that social media can
    really affect today’s generation with a lot of
    negative effects but the writer also explained
    that using social media can cause its users to
    increase their digital media literacy, a factor
    that could be the reason why a lot of people are
    encouraged to use social media.
    According to the article entitled “Ang Epekto
    ng Hindi Tamang Paggamit ng Social Media”
    that was published in Social Media Advocates
    (2018) that teens tend to like using social media
    because they can create their own identity and
    let other people think who they want to be. A
    girl named Essena O’Neil was featured in the
    said article and told that she went over being
    into an Instagram addict into not using
    Instagram at all, she said everything in her
    account was a lie, she was not having a great life
    contrary to what identity she had created in her
    Instagram account.
    Group 3
    11-Ezra

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