Social media has significantly influenced the lives of many people who are struggling

with mental illness. Web and mobile platforms that enable people to communicate
with others inside a virtual network are collectively referred to as social media, (such
as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, or LinkedIn), where they're able to
interact, exchange, or co-create various types of digital content, such as data,
conversations, pictures, or videos (Ahmed et al. 2019). According to studies, people
with a range of mental disorders, such as depression, psychotic disorders, or other
severe mental illnesses, use social media platforms at rates similar to those of the
general population, with use among middle-aged and older people hovering around
70% and rising to upwards of 97% among younger people (Aschbrenner et al.
2018b; Birnbaum et al. 2017b; Brunette et al. 2019; Naslund et al. 2016). Other
exploratory research have discovered that many of these people with mental illness
seem to use social media to discuss their personal experiences, learn about their
mental health and treatment options, and provide and receive support from people
going through comparable mental health difficulties (Bucci et al. 2019; Naslund et al.
2016b). By improving the caliber, accessibility, and reach of services, the broad
reach and nearly universal use of social media platforms may present innovative
options to solve these gaps in the current mental health care system. Social media
usage trends, the effects of social media use on mental health and wellbeing, and
the possibility to exploit social media's popularity and interactive features to improve
the delivery of interventions have all been the subject of recent studies. The dangers
and potential negative effects of social media on mental health are still unknown,
though (Orben and Przybylski 2019) and how to balance these worries with potential
advantages. In order to offer support to students with mental disorders, encourage
engagement and retention in treatment, and improve current mental health services,
we looked at the potential role of social media as an intervention platform while
balancing the requirement for safety. Using social media have a prolonged
consequences whether good or bad there's a chance of risk of depression, anxiety,
loneliness, self-harm and even suicidal thoughts.

Research Gap

To address these limitations, researchers and practitioners have begun

investigating passive data sources that provide dense and longitudinal behavior of

individuals at scale and the social media's pervasiveness and widespread use,

particularly among the college student , social media data, real-time and actual data

to infer well-being. Social media data is low-cost, large-scale, and non-intrusive to

collect, as well as has the potential to comprehensively reveal realistic patterns of

mood, behavior, cognition, psychological states, and social milieu for individuals and

collectives in real-time and over time. Social media language consists of an

individual's personal and social discourse about day-to-day concerns and effectively

reflects their health and psychosocial well-being in various states and contexts. For

instance, is there any relationship among use of social media and mental health.

Significance of the Study

Moreover, schools that are more susceptible to noise pollution may be able
to propose solutions derived from the findings of the study, presuming that the
learning
environment may affect students' tests and academic performance. Schools may
engage
in upgrading to soundproof classrooms as possible solutions that can be conducive
to
student learning. In accordance, school faculty and administrators are also directed
as
to which issues must be addressed, including high supervision of classroom
etiquette,
like keeping an eye out for noise disturbances, notably during tests. Furthermore, the
study's findings will serve as a reference for future researchers that may also help
them
identify relevant aspects of the study that were overlooked by previous researchers.

General Objectives

This study aimed to investigate the association between social media use and
mental health conditions in University students.

Specific Objectives

To identify the reasons for Social Media use to correlate to the user's mental well-
being.

To discover the level of awareness about the negative impact of heavy use of social
media on mental health among university students.
To determine the significant relationship between the use of social media and the
mental health of the university students.

Significance of the study

The findings of this research impart beneficence to everyone involved in the study.
The students, who are also the participants, are being apprised firsthand about how
social media apps can be utilized to help them manage their mental health.And, for
the future researchers, the result of this research may be basis of further studies and
can be used for their own research by using it as a reference.

Theory

The displaced behavior theory (Coyne et al. 2020; Escobar-Viera et al. 2018) claims
that people spend less time in the real world as they spend more time on social
media. Teenagers are not interacting with the natural world when they spend
significant time on social media. They are not playing outside, hanging out with
friends and family, or just being in the real world. As a result, individuals are more
prone to experience negative consequences such as despair, stress, social anxiety,
and isolation. This idea was used in this study since it was discovered that
adolescents are more likely to be exposed to negative social media encounters the
more time they spend on social media. The Social Learning Theory (Bandura, 1977)
focuses on observation as a key component of learning and how it can be used to
guide learners' behavior in social media situations.
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