HOW SOCIAL-MEDIA CREATES A FAKE REALITY?

Abstract

How Social-Media Creates a Fake Reality?Social media was created with the aim of making people’s life easier through knowledge sharing, networking, and interacting with their nearest and dearest, it all began with universal benefits and user-friendliness. But today, people are ruining their lives due to social media, by comparing the fake lives of others with our own, we spoil our own lives. We are considering our real lives as waste by comparing them with others fake lives, but it may be possible that behind the scenes, that person’s life is worse than yours. You don’t know anything, but we feel bad comparing our real lives with the fake lives of others. Social media use and declining mental health are related in a number of researches. Even though most individuals are aware that social media only represents a small portion of reality, admiring your peers’ gorgeous, promising, and successful lifestyle can have a major negative impact on your mental health. Therefore this study focuses on how people have created a fake world around them.

Rationale of the study: This study helps us to understand the factors influencing such fake behaviour of peoples on social media; we could help them to understand the consequences of such behaviour.

Method:  with the help of structures questionnaires researchers have gathered 384 responses using convenient sampling method and interferences are drawn using suitable statistical methods