San Francisco: A team of psychologists in the United States has found a relationship between sleep disorders and the use of social media in the evening, through a study of 44,000 users of the “Reddit” social networking site.
And previous studies had found that exposure to blue light emitted from mobile phone screens and tablet computers affects the natural sleep patterns of humans, because it affects the production of melatonin in the body, but the research team from Yale and Duke Universities of America found that posting blog posts on communication sites before Sleep, can delay sleep.
In the framework of the study published by the scientific journal “Sleep Medicine” specialized in sleep problems, the research team analyzed 120 million posts made by 44,000 people on the reddit social networking site over a period of 15 years, and through continuous analyzes they were able to determine the normal hours of sleep for those who use This allowed them to study the effect of blogging on social media on normal sleep hours.
The researchers found that posting a post on the site an hour before a normal bedtime is likely to result in a user staying awake beyond their normal bedtime, for an average of one to three hours. The research team added, in statements to the “Medical Express” website, which specializes in medical research, that publishing more than one post before bedtime may lead to the user staying awake for a longer period.
The researchers attributed the reasons for this phenomenon to the high levels of dopamine in the brain due to the user's anticipation of the response from the rest of the site's users to his post, which leads to the disruption of the possibility of relaxation before sleep.
Previous studies have revealed that high levels of dopamine contribute to increased mental activity and alertness, all of which are symptoms that interfere with normal sleep.
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