Benefits and challenges of social networking during COVID-19: personal perspective

Issa, Tomayess; Jaafari, Mohammed Al; Alqahtani, Abdullah Salem; Alqahtani, Sulaiman; Issa, Theodora; Maketo, Lydia; Pervaiz, Sumaiya

doi:10.1504/ijwbc.2021.114446

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“…Such restriction of movement and related uncertainties gave rise to negative emotions, affecting people's mental well-being (Cullen et al 2020, Marroquín et al 2020, Pfefferbaum and North 2020 and reducing life satisfaction (Zacher and Rudolph 2021). Stress, fear, and sadness are negative emotions that can be reduced by social activities, such as time spent with family (Evans et al 2020) or friends (Lippke et al 2021), online meetings (Issa et al 2021, Brouzos et al 2023, and physical activities (Lippke et al 2021). Apart from these activities, contact with nature has been found to be beneficial for mental well-being both before (Bratman et al 2019) and during the pandemic (Oh et al 2021a(Oh et al , 2021b.…”

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Recognizing the importance of near-home contact with nature for mental well-being based on the COVID-19 lockdown experience

Lenda,

Skórka,

Jaźwa

et al. 2023

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Several urban landscape planning solutions have been introduced around the world to find a balance between developing urban spaces, maintaining and restoring biodiversity, and enhancing quality of human life. Our global mini-review, combined with analysis of big data collected from Google Trends at global scale, reveals the importance of enjoying day-to-day contact with nature and engaging in such activities as nature observation and identification and gardening for the mental well-being of humans during the COVID-19 pandemic. Home-based activities, such as watching birds from one's window, identifying species of plants and animals, backyard gardening, and collecting information about nature for citizen science projects, were popular during the first lockdown in spring 2020, when people could not easily venture out of their homes. In our mini-review, we found 37 articles from 28 countries with a total sample of 114,466 people. These papers suggest that home-based engagement with nature was an entertaining and pleasant distraction that helped preserve mental well-being during a challenging time. According to Google Trends, interest in such activities increased during lockdown compared to the previous five years. Millions of people worldwide are chronically or temporarily confined to their homes and neighborhoods because of illness, childcare chores, or elderly care responsibility, which makes it difficult for them to travel far to visit such places as national parks, created through land sparing, where people go to enjoy nature and relieve stress. This article posits that for such people, living in an urban landscape designed to facilitate effortless contact with small natural areas is a more effective way to receive the mental health benefits of contact with nature than visiting a sprawling nature park on rare occasions.

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Recognizing the importance of near-home contact with nature for mental well-being based on the COVID-19 lockdown experience

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Jaźwa

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“…The Covid-19 (Corona Virus) has been spread around all over the world now, and new cases and death rates are increasing day by day, which is an alarming situation for human life [5][6][7][8]. The Covid-19 pandemic shook the businesses, economy, trading, education [9,10], healthcare, especially the daily lifestyle of everyone globally [11][12][13].…”

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Social Networking Security during COVID-19: A Systematic Literature Review

Abid

Rizwan

Veselý

et al. 2022

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

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During the Covid-19 Pandemic, the usage of social media networks increased exponentially. People engage in education, business, shopping, and other social activities (i.e., Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, YouTube). As social networking expands rapidly, its positive and negative impacts affect human health. All this leads to social crimes and illegal activities like phishing, hacking, ransomware, password attacks, spyware, blackmailing, Middle-man-attack. This research extensively discusses the social networking threats, challenges, online surveys, and future effects. We conduct an online survey using the google forms platform to collect the responses of social networking sites (SNS) users within Pakistan to show how SNS affects health positively and negatively. According to the collected response, we analyzed that 50% of the users use SNS for education purposes, 17.5% use it for shopping purposes, 58.2% use it for entertainment, 37.1% use it for communication, and 9.8% use it for other purposes. According to the response, the excessive use of SNS affects the health that 9.8% users face the physical threat, 42.8% user faces mental health issues due to excessive or inappropriate use of SN, and 50.5% users feel moral threat using Social sites. Finally, we conclude our paper by discussing the open challenges, conclusions, and future directions.

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Benefits and challenges of social networking during COVID-19: personal perspective

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Recognizing the importance of near-home contact with nature for mental well-being based on the COVID-19 lockdown experience

Recognizing the importance of near-home contact with nature for mental well-being based on the COVID-19 lockdown experience

Social Networking Security during COVID-19: A Systematic Literature Review

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