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Introduction New and advanced technologies can have immense potential with respect to education and communication but their abusive use and addiction, such as excessive use of social media networks, can have really negative consequences for users, especially children and young people. People affected by social media addiction can be defined as those lacking ability to control their use. With this consideration in mind, this essay discusses cause and effect of excessive use of social and its consequences which are depression, speech articulation and social isolation, through which users of social media have to go through some key difficulties, such as maintaining jobs, poor academic performance, inadequate social and interpersonal relationships and so on. Discussion It has been found that depression, along with anxiety, rates have escalated by 70% during the last more than two decades and that there is a direct relationship of social media networks with this growth (Pantic, 2014). The estimation is that about 90% of adolescents use different social networks; Facebook is one of them, where they spend even for hours day and night. This habit has the strong potential to help development of a greater risk of falling young people and adolescents into intense emotional problems (Alshammari et al., 2017; Waqas et al., 2018). The reason is that they want to stay connected with their friends on social media channels causing emotional and cognitive disturbances in sleep, which ultimately leads to depression (Parthasarathy, 2017). Spending more time than it should in social networks, increases the risk of exposure to negative phenomena such as cyber bullying, grooming and other similar negative orientations, which can cause emotional states of strong anxiety and depression (Pantic, 2014). When they use social media networks, it is felt by people that they have an immense sense of freedom of expression and speech articulation. Indeed, social media content is monitored and can be eliminated, but social media channels have millions of users around the world, thus not all content cannot be watched, assessed and absolutely controlled (Bergsson, 2014). Therefore, this factor has really resulted in a fast growing rise in hate speech, as people want to express their feelings and ideas and they may otherwise find it hard to articulate their voice (Bergsson, 2014). Moreover, people with more fundamental or perhaps ethically disputed opinions and ideas can

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lead to discomfort in a society through social networks (Awan, 2014). In fact, people have the right to express but when more extreme views or any hate speech is expressed by them, this act leads to racism and sexism, for example, in a society. Social isolation is another major effect of excessive use of social media, which also leads to anxiety, inadequate self-esteem while making the users lose control (Hampton, Sessions and Her, 2011). Excessive use of social networks causes addiction and addition is established when loss of control is involved in the use of social networks. If this happens, a user’s behaviour become automatic and emotionally activated, through which cognitive control is lost by the affected user over the success or error of the decision (Best, Manktelow and Taylor, 2014). The addiction weighs the gains of immediate satisfaction and enjoyment, but does not perceive the potential long-term adverse effects. Thus, excessive use of social media channels can facilitate in the development of social isolation, along with bad performance and negative changes in behaviour (Best, Manktelow and Taylor, 2014). Conclusion This essay has discussed cause and effect of excessive use social media leading to depression, speech articulation and isolation in users. Although social media networks are crucial as they update us technologically by making communication easy, they can be harmful when users use it excessively to express their extreme views, and when users fall into depression and then become socially isolated. Social media channels depend heavily on the criteria that all users have and the capability to be shaped by them or not. It is not a problem with networks in reality, but it is the way people use it.

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