To put things into perspective, are a few key highlighted statistics. Over sixty percent of U. S. households now have a personal computer and over fifty percent have Internet access (Price, 2002). In 2012, Anxiety UK conducted a survey on social media use and its effects on emotions and learned that fifty- three percent of people reported the launch of social networking sites had changed their behavior, and of those, fifty- one percent said the impact had been …show more content…
One hundred- sixty- nine people in seventy- three households during their first one to two years online underwent an investigation using a longitudinal data study. Research discovered that the more use of the Internet caused participants to communicate less with his or her family members and social circles, as well as, the increase in depression and loneliness (Kraut, Patterson, Lundmark, Kiesler, Mukophadhyay, & Scherlis,