Can excessive use of social media contribute to addictive behaviors (drugs, tobacco, alcohol) or mental health issues?

Although every facility have negative and positive outcomes. Similarly social media is now playing very important role in human life. But to the other side there is also many dark impact. In this research it is tried to conclude how social media is affecting human life and what are the consequences human health is facing. The addiction of social media is similar to drug addiction. Earlier few years back the access of social media was limited to personal computers or laptops. But now a days through mobile phones everyone connect himself 24 hours with social media. Specially the addiction of social media use is affecting youngsters life style and they start doing abnormal behavior when ever a notification bell rings in mobile device or his/her laptop. Even they are not interested in doing any outdoor activity. Such as outdoor games, physical activity games ets. Even the worst thing is the youth started playing games like ludo, snakes ladder or other physical activitiy games on mobile and connected to friends via social media only. So in order to overcome the parents should counsil their children and youngster. They should motivate them to do some other activities rather than spending whole day in virtual world. In this research such issues and impact of social media on youngsters are discussed and it is tried to findout the points how to overcome with this addiction.