Social media use is more strongly linked to bad mental health for adolescents and teenagers during years around puberty and when they’re probably about to leave home, according to a. Teenagers who used social media more frequently in those periods scored lower on measures of life satisfaction one year later.
“Adolescence is a time of such massive cognitive, biological, and social change. These changes interface with social media in very interesting ways,” says study author Amy Orben, a psychologist who heads the Digital Mental Health program at the University of Cambridge. “There’s probably a huge amount of variability between how different individuals use social media and how their life influences their use.
Narrowing in on adolescents, the team found that for people in the 16- to 21-year-old age range, both very low and very high social media use were both linked with lower life satisfaction. In 10- to 15-year-olds, there wasn’t
Some of the comments demonstrate the subtle toxic nature of social media. It’s why my son didn’t have a cell phone until the spring of his senior year in HS. It wasn’t that big of a deal for him.
Yeah!! but social media is very bad!! specially for blogger like me who is not getting any traffic from it!!🫡🫡🫡
Nothing new. It’s bad, and that’s the reason why people use it so much. Companies just want profit
Only if you have the mindset of a cow
No shit sherlock
Not might be it is
No shit sherlock
No Shit LOL
Obvious really.
Everything is bad 'at certain age windows' car at 80yo knife at 3 yo water at 2 yo water at 90yo, air at 150yo
No sh*t sherlock 🤨
duhhhhh
This is brand new information.
No shit
Ok that I can agree on.
It is even bad for adults. We have never been more disconnected
”Might”?
No shit.
It's bad for everyones mental health at all ages.
Might? MIGHT?
MIGHT be bad? Wow, really? 🤔
And they just figured this out?
If they focus on learning one niche only, social media will be a bonus to learn financial literacy, STEM, and beautiful quotes.
Truly obvious. Social media amplifies everything. Body image, thought processes, etc. to every human alive. It's bad for everyone at almost all times. But we continue on it. We can't put the cellphones down. 😅😂
Social media is bad for everyone on this planet
MIGHT BE?!?!?
Everything is bad for you when you have too much of it
Social media is only bad for those who take offense and don't understand 'Offences are only taken, not given'
'teens' , 'certain age window' !!!?
Instagram and tiktok
So my grandpa is probably safe, even though it affects him, he's gonna expire sooner? ಠ_ಠ
Yeah
Might be?
No shit
what a surprise
aint never seen Moms click on that link so fast before
We’ve known this for like 13 years
View behind one of those age windows:
Well it’s bad for my mental health and I’m not a teen, so I’d have to imagine it’s also bad for a teens mental health.
Some social media platforms like instagram and facebook forces people to look cool and rich even if they are not and the constant and unhealthy competition of gaining the most followers and likes does has a bad impact on teenagers minds.
'Social is bad for teenagers', this statement is actually slightly wrong too. Not all social media platforms are bad for teenagers. I might agree with you if say the same thing bout Instagram, it is bad for mental health.
I think they're bad for all age groups, and not just teens😬.
No shit!
might be... lol
Ya think
Social media is bad for everybody if that's their entire life.
I think it’s bad for fucking everybody, but not because it’s a bad thing but because these websites are hard coded to make you fight with people you hate for more interactions
Social media is digital cancer.
What about age 50?
Shocking news! Here is even more shocking news, it’s bad for everyone regardless of age
It’s bad for everyone
Just teens ?
“Might”
no shit, what did u think?😆
I'm just concerned about the photo. Why a 13 Pro Max? What teen would just have one?
Might be? Bro there have been hundreds of studies at this point. We know social media is terrible for everybody's mental health.
“The challenge has been figuring out which teens are at risk — and when they’re at risk — so experts can develop strategies to help them.” Challenge? Easy: All of them, always, and don’t let them do it
That window between birth and 80
Social media bad for teens? No fucking shit, they already made a documentary on this.
Eh, as a teen I’ve been using social media for about half my life and it’s only improved my enjoyment of life, and if it weren’t for it I’d probably be depressed from not having anyone else to talk to and nothing to do. Of course, your mileage may vary though.
Everyone*****
The comments didn’t disappoint 😂😂😂
'might be' 'at certain age windows' ok US Weekly
Ah yes, that critical 0-? age window.
😂😂😂😂😂
In other news: Water is Wet!
Life itself is bad for some teens at some certain age, but you just got to live it, if they don't experience it they won't understand it
This is my shocked face
Oh really? Hmm i would have never known if i wasnt told this like every other month…
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Oh really, never would've guessed
Yeah it's bad ofc it is
No shit
Yeah no shit, it can be bad for adults leave alone teens!
Probably from 13 to 19 😉
Every generation there’s gonna be something that they say is bad for teens. It started with magazines and radio, then tv, then the internet, and now social media. There will always be something!
“Cigarettes might be bad for your lungs at certain age windows”
No shit Sherlock
It’s bad for everyone
Social media seems to pretty bad for everyone in all age windows.
It’s bad for everyone
Yes, I am one of them
who would have thought
So is smoking crack and bad parenting!
Really? What makes you say that…