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The dark side of social media on youth mental health (www.psypost.org)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (4 children)

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

I doubt we knew it's effects for decades

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

A little over two decades actually.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

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