Hi! My name is Melody Oki and I am majoring in General Creative Media. If I were an artist tool, I would be a sketchbook. My artist’s journey all began when I received my first sketchbook from my parents. I was never really interested in drawing before, until I started sketching and doodling in that book and couldn’t stop. It started as a hobby and now, after graduation, I hope to make a career as a digital artist. I would like to stay here on the island and maybe become a graphic designer or digital artist for local businesses. It would be great if I could work somewhere on the west side so I don’t have to drive to town every day.
Social media has some advantages and disadvantages that have positive and negative effects on people’s mental health. This research will explore how social media can have a harmful effect on their users as well as looking at how anxiety would be affected. Studying the literature that is used, explains different scenarios of negative concepts such as addiction, distress, and self-esteem issues though along with what is stated as bad there are also positive concepts along with it. As people know that social media can be a habit and would be hard to break through coming up with an alternative to help people cope with their mental state can be helpful since we can’t control the number of people being on their social media platforms though we can try to get their attention with posting on media about the brawl between mental health and how they can try to manage it. The purpose is to gain information about anxiety disorders and how to improve them along the way. There are many issues dealing with anxiety though as it can give users the idea of it as a positive way and using media to try and better themselves since social media is flooded with many people with similarities it can be a helpful tool for people to talk about how they feel.