Does Social Media Affects Users’ Well-Being

Abstract

Social media platforms are now considered as the most used tools that people used daily. The relationship between social media and well-being is driven by many implicit and explicit factors that are difficult to configure. There is a substantial agreement that using social media platforms have positive effects and dark sides on well-being along with many contradictions. This study is an attempt to understand social media effects on users’ well-being by a novel perception that avoids the linear perspectives of the digital world. This research proposes a digital chaos model to better understanding the full picture of the new chaotic life. This model presents the interplay of dynamic actions and factors between social media platforms and users’ well-being, which are complex, nonlinear and interactive factors.