The impact of the wrong information Through social media sites on the psychological health of users,during the Corona Covid 19 pandemic. ”An exploratory study on a sample of Algerian Face book usersas a model”

Abstract

This study attempts to identify the implications of social media sites about the pandemic of the Corona Virus Covid 19 and the extent of its credibility by taking an overview of the levels and patterns of interaction across social media sites, especially Face book, about the crisis of the spread of this virus, and its impact on its recipients and the resulting special health problems Psychological ones. The data of the respondents were collected by relying on the electronic questionnaire that was distributed according to the snowball method. And then analyzing its results according to the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) program. Which enabled us to reach important results, most notably Facebook was chosen by the respondents with a very high rate of 85.2% as the most important site among the social networking sites, Also, The access of the researched sample to Facebook in light of the crisis was permanent and at a rate exceeding 5 hours per day.