James Miller

 The Impact of Social Media on Adolescent Mental Health Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation Course Details Professor’s Name Date The Impact of Social Media on Adolescent Mental Health The integration of social media into today’s living environment has raised many issues that regards its effects to the mental health of the teens. While it offers easy connection with a lot of people, it has also brought significant negative impacts on the well-being of the adolescent including depression, increased anxiety and issues on body images. Its landscape has been complexing because of its influence. This annotated bibliography evaluates several sources that explores both the opportunities and challenges of social media among the adolescents. The aim is to provide a better understanding and comprehensive overview on how social media influence anxiety, depression and emotional well-being. Khalaf A M, Alubied A A, Khalaf A M, et al. (August 05, 2023) The Impact of Social media on the Mental Health of Adolescents and Young Adults: A Systematic Review. Cureus 15(8): e42990. DOI 10.7759/cureus.42990 In this article, Khalaf argues about the impact of social media on the mental health of adolescents and young adults, demonstrating in his research a modest but statistically significant association between social media use and depression symptoms. He further provides that the effects of social media on mental health are complex, as different goals are served by different behaviors and different outcomes are produced by distinct patterns of use. Khalif cites instances that evocate and justify like if new technologies would be necessary to promote social interaction or develop digital and relational (digitally mediated) skills for growing economies, policies so as to restrict teen access to them would be ineffective. As the research is still in its early stages, more research is needed by the source. I found points made in this article helpful, thus I will incorporate into my discussion to acknowledge the challenges since it is nearly unavoidable in practice. Vaingankar JA, van Dam RM, Samari E, Chang S, Seow E, Chua YC, Luo N, Verma S, Subramaniam M Social Media–Driven Routes to Positive Mental Health Among Youth: Qualitative Enquiry and Concept Mapping Study JMIR Pediatr Parent 2022;5(1):e32758 doi: 10.2196/32758 In this article, Vaingankar JA explores the experience of how the youths to understand the contribution of social media to positive mental health among them. He highlights that the integral part of social media and indicates that they can offer opportunities for positive influence and social support which in turn contribute to positive mental health. He further mentions that this can be applied to optimize engagement with youth through social media. Interpretivist epistemological approach, 25 semi-structured interviews and 11 focus group discussions were conducted which posits that the article is well researched and creditable to use. I will use this text to show that social media provides opportunities that contribute to positive influence