Media use has many impacts on life. One of them is the acute psychological effects (positive emotion and negative emotion). This has also affected society during the pandemic. This study aims to analyze impact of media use on negative emotions during the COVID-19 in Indonesia. The method in this study used a cross-sectional method using an online survey instrument with a sample of 610 people. Analysis statistics used correlation analysis. The results showed based on Pearson's Product Moment Correlation analysis with a p-value of 0.001 (<alpha=0.05), which means there is a significant relationship between watches a video on social media and negative emotion. The correlation value showed r = 0.131 which according to the level of closeness indicates that there is a relationship that occurs. While the direction of the relationship is positive so that the relationship is unidirectional. The more often someone watches a video on social media, the more negative emotions of a person. According to the results of the analysis, the results of the correlation analysis between searches information of social media with negative emotion showed p-value=0.000 (<alpha=0.05), which means that there is a significant relationship. The correlation value showed r = 0.144 which according to the level of closeness indicates that there is a very low relationship. While the direction of the relationship is positive so that the relationship is unidirectional. The more often someone searches for information on social media, the more negative emotion of a person. The results of correlation the reposting information behavior with negative emotion showed p-value=0.000 (<alpha=0.05), which means that there is a significant relationship. The correlation value showed r = 0.168 which according to the level of closeness indicates that there is a very low relationship. While the direction of the relationship is positive so that the relationship is unidirectional. The more often someone reposts information, the more the negative emotion of a person. While the results of the analysis of tv, radio, printed newspapers, and online newspapers showed the results of the person correlation analysis with p-values ​​of 0.628, 0.772, 0.927, and 0.315 (>alpha=0.05) which means there are no significant relationship with negative emotions. With the results can be concluded that watches a video on social media, searces information on social media, and reposting information behavior on social media have an impact on increasing a person's negative emotions