The dark side of social media on youth mental health (www.psypost.org)
from L4s@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 26 Dec 2023 04:00
https://lemmy.world/post/9981478

The dark side of social media on youth mental health::The U.S. Surgeon General’s recent advisory highlights the perilous impact of social media on youth mental health, linking it to rising cases of eating disorders and body image dissatisfaction.

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super_user_do@feddit.it on 26 Dec 2023 05:53 next collapse

We’ve known the side effects of social media for decades but we’re still doing nothing…

kameecoding@lemmy.world on 26 Dec 2023 12:46 next collapse

Decades? Aren’t they less than 2 decades old?

I doubt we knew it’s effects for decades

DJDarren@thelemmy.club on 26 Dec 2023 12:54 next collapse

Speak for yourself; I thought Facebook was shitty back in 1984.

QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world on 26 Dec 2023 23:18 next collapse

MySpace surely was one of them. Came out in 2003. So…two decades? :D

EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world on 27 Dec 2023 19:48 next collapse

A little over two decades actually.

rosymind@leminal.space on 27 Dec 2023 21:03 collapse

Iirc, I was about 16 when Myspace was a thing. I’m gonna be 40 very soon

podperson@lemm.ee on 27 Dec 2023 01:17 collapse

We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas.

LainOfTheWired@lemy.lol on 26 Dec 2023 15:56 next collapse

Wow more articles raising awareness of an issue your dead Grandma already knows about.

Because that’s a lot easier then doing anything about it, and anything that claims to do anything about it is a bill full of other agendas that barely addresses the problem.

GiveOver@feddit.uk on 27 Dec 2023 01:13 next collapse

To quote pink Floyd: There is no dark side. Matter of fact, it’s all dark.

Lemming6969@lemmy.world on 27 Dec 2023 18:55 collapse

Most people don’t need social media to be justified in being dissatisfied with their body image