Social Media & Your Mental Health

Social Media & Your Mental Health is a wide-ranging volume that explains today's social media landscape and examines its ramifications for users. An even-handed selection of essays that neither vilify technology nor ignore the fact that it can have dire repercussions if misused, Social Media & Your Mental Health includes general background material and profiles of social media's major players, a close look at how being online excessively can affect your physical and mental well-being, digital relationship-building, and much more.  With timely pieces on unrealistic beauty standards, how digital content is skewing our political discourse, and scammers who prey on the elderly, Social Media & Your Mental Health will be of interest to anyone who has ever shared a post or clicked a "like" button.