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Sociology and Anthropology Vol. 2(7), pp. 291 - 294
DOI: 10.13189/sa.2014.020705
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Social Media Impact on Youth Depression
Shyama Jinasena *
University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
ABSTRACT
In the 21st century internet spread all over the world without limitations and challenges to the world community as every person is connected with globally & made strong community affairs. Social media network with sharing peoples' activities as photographs, videos or their status. In Sri lanka, most of the people join with face book as a social media network to search their old friends or keep in touch with new communities. According to human beings such activities are common, but there are disadvantages such as women using fb to fulfill their emptiness in their lives. As a woman she expects lots of things such as love, security & caring etc. They expect such things from their families and their husbands. But they do not get that satisfaction even from both as they wish. In that situation whoever they meet in their lives they believe them and treat very high thinking that this is the ultimate in their lives. Fb is a new introduction where god comes to their lives as love. Most love affairs are unbelievable, as boys start love affairs to spend their idle time with the playful memorable moments. The end of such girls' love affairs is the boys vanishing with unpredictable social affairs such as depression ect. A case study comprising a mixture of qualitative and quantitative research methods were carried out to establish the facts. As tools of this research interviews, questionnaires and observations were too used as online researches to determine the youth depression as an impact of face book in Sri lanka.
KEYWORDS
Online Media, Face Book (Fb), Love Affairs, Depression, Youth
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[1] Shyama Jinasena , "Social Media Impact on Youth Depression," Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 2, No. 7, pp. 291 - 294, 2014. DOI: 10.13189/sa.2014.020705.
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Shyama Jinasena (2014). Social Media Impact on Youth Depression. Sociology and Anthropology, 2(7), 291 - 294. DOI: 10.13189/sa.2014.020705.