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Social Media Impacts on Sleep

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Introduction

With the global development of technology, social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, and Snapchat have emerged, enhancing communication among the different parts of the globe. Despite social media platforms playing a crucial role in communication, users have experienced unethical effects such as cyber stalking and cyberbullying, which makes people depressed, making them have a hard time going to sleep. Users with expertise have been able to find exciting content that makes them stay in bed for long without sleeping and become ineffective at the workplace as they do not have enough time to sleep. (Scott et al., 2019)

According to Tandon, Social media platforms such as Snapchat have simplified our use as they are incorporated with artificial intelligence technology, allowing us to find similar videos to the videos we are watching. Since our favorite videos keep coming consistently, they tend to make us have a hard time when getting asleep. Rather than sleep, we use our phones to reduce sleeping hours. When students have reduced hours of sleeping, their concentration in school is likely to reduce, thus affecting their performance. (Tandon et al., 2020)

Focusing on how social media work, most are globally licensed, and users are free to share their opinions depending on the post type. In a social media platform such as Facebook, it is approximated that more than two hundred and forty thousand pictures are uploaded every minute. Since most of the pictures and comments are exciting to view, most users prefer to stay active following them and spend most of their sleeping hours, making them sleep for about three hours. Since most of them have not had enough time to rest, they tend to be very tired while working, which reduces their workplace productivity.

Most social media platforms have current trends in the market, which allows users to be able to know the activities that are taking place globally. Since some people carry it for business, they might follow the programs for long durations while others do it for fun. People who do it for fun try to explore the most profound part making it hard for them to sleep. This reduced their productivity in the workplace, thus impacting their jobs. (Aravienthan et al., 2021)

When new users join social media platforms, they do not expect that they are likely to encounter cyber criminals. All they do is comment on things they think that they are all-time relevant. When the users comment on posts that they think are ideal, cyber criminals might tend to insult them. Instead of the new users forgetting about the comment, they keep thinking about the comments and later get depressed. This makes them unsocial with other people, and after going to bed, they always find it hard to sleep and might end up not using social media platforms.

Most users who use social media platforms tend to think that since they are used for communicating, they do not have any side effects associated with sleep and tend to fail to know the reality. When users are using social media platforms, they have to control themselves as with the existence of social media across all parts of the globe, which can have different impacts on the users. When social media is shared across the globe, users can be expected to find all kinds of information that might have a different impact they do not have to react to. When social media users decide to react to the information that is composed on social media, they might face negative consequences affecting their sleeping hours. (Dhir et al., 2021)

According to research that was carried out on Facebook on how people used Facebook, many people never regulated themselves on the number of times they would use Facebook, which led to alarming issues. Furthermore, when browsing social media platforms, they would open their platforms at any time of the day, including at night, when they could browse regularly. They seemed not to be focusing on specific content. This was a massive threat to them as they would open any content they just wanted, and they would spend long durations without falling asleep. If people could control themselves, they would have a better experience on social media platforms. (Ghalavand et al., 2020)

The current study on social media platforms has justified that most people who use social media platforms tend to use social media for fun where they are attracted by all the exciting comments they come through while browsing. However, upon commenting, they encounter unethical activities such as cyber stalking, making them hard to fall asleep as they keep remembering their experience on the social media platform.

Hypothesis: Participants who reported more hours of social media use at T2 will take longer to fall asleep on average at T3 than participants who reported fewer hours of social media use.

Type of claim: This research uses an association claim as people who do not use social media platforms for long durations tend to have good sleeping hours. On the other hand, people who tend to use social media platforms a lot tend to have reduced sleeping hours.

Reference

Aravienthan, V., Kandasamy, I., Thiyagarajah, B., Sathiamoorthy, T., & Thayaparan, J. (2021, March). Impacts of technology use on sleep and wellbeing in high school students during the COVID-19 pandemic. In Technological Advances in Science, Medicine and Engineering Conference 2021.

Dhir, A., Talwar, S., Kaur, P., Budhiraja, S., & Islam, N. (2021). The dark side of social media: Stalking, online self‐disclosure and problematic sleep. International Journal of Consumer Studies, 45(6), 1373-1391.

Ghalavand, H., Panahi, S., & Sedghi, S. (2020). Social media's opportunities and challenges for health knowledge management: A narrative review. Journal of education and health promotion, 9.

Scott, H., & Woods, H. C. (2019). Understanding links between social media use, sleep and mental health: recent progress and current challenges. Current Sleep Medicine Reports, 5(3), 141-149.

Tandon, A., Kaur, P., Dhir, A., & Mäntymäki, M. (2020). Sleepless due to social media? Investigating problematic sleep due to social media and social media sleep hygiene. Computers in human behavior, 113, 106487.

Wong, H. Y., Mo, H. Y., Potenza, M. N., Chan, M. N. M., Lau, W. M., Chui, T. K., ... & Lin, C. Y. (2020). Relationships between severity of internet gaming disorder, severity of problematic social media use, sleep quality and psychological distress. International journal of environmental research and public health, 17(6), 1879.