Overview

In today's age everyone uses electronics, from infants to the elderly. Electronic technology has helped to create breakthroughs in modern day medicine, scientific research, and the understanding the universe. However, most of technology used by the public consists of social media, online gaming/ tv shows or electronic gizmos like drones, Rc cars, electric bikes and cars. With electronics changing and transforming each year. The usage amount rises even faster. Heavy electronic and social media use are having a negative effect on society and the environment. Effecting the youth in greater quantities due to being at a more susceptible level mentally. The youth aren't the only ones suffering from social media use, older generations also endure anxiety, depression, addiction, narcissism and low self-esteem. As the usage of social media rises the more mental illnesses creep up as well. There are six main contributing factors that keeps society in a vicious emotional cycle causing (PSMU) Problematic Social Media Use and (PSU) Problematic Smartphone Use. Those factors explain what stage of the cycle a person is in and what's to come. Another major side-effect of heavy electronic and social media usage is diminishing IQ. Society has become attached and complacent to electronic technology doing the thinking and labor for them. They're losing vital neuro connections, deductive reasoning and physical skills. So, the more variations of the same electronic technology that's produced the faster society is becoming dumbed down and leading to the destruction of the planet. For every discarded phone, Gameboy, tv, washer, car, or even hearing aids. The amount of e-waste accumulated yearly is outrageous but what's scarier is the fact that the recycling for the e-waste is so far behind. Production would have to immediately halt on every electronic device for years before recycling could ever imagine catching up.