Department of engineering and technology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Regional Campus, Ladhewali, Jalandhar, Punjab.
World Journal of Advanced Engineering Technology and Sciences, 2025, 14(02), 224-227
Article DOI: 10.30574/wjaets.2025.14.2.0045
Received on 22 December 2024; revised on 04 February 2025; accepted on 07 February 2025
The impact of social media on mental health has been widely debated, with particular focus on its role in deteriorating mental well-being among younger generations. Since the advent of Web 2.0 in 1999, attention spans have significantly decreased—from 12 seconds in millennials to just 8.25 seconds in Gen Z by 2015, a figure now shorter than that of a goldfish. This may become a very alarming issue with the proliferation of Web 3.0 and highly sophisticated algorithms of social media platforms.
It presents research on how India's increase in cases of mental disorders is interrelated with increased internet usage on social media. There are 104 respondents to give data with the aid of a questionnaire that has proven to be compact and reflective across generations.
Social Media; Younger generation; Mental disorders; Proliferation; Gen Z; Web 2.0
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Diksha and Varinder Kaur Attri. Effect of social media on mental health: A cross-generational observation. World Journal of Advanced Engineering Technology and Sciences, 2025, 14(02), 224-227. Article DOI: https://doi.org/10.30574/wjaets.2025.14.2.0045.
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