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Does social media negatively impact teen mental health?

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we're in the middle of a youth Mental

Health crisis in America this is the

defining Public Health Challenge of our

time and I'm very concerned that social

media has become an important

contributor to the pain and struggles

the question that everyone wants to

answer is does social media negatively

impact mental health we have to remember

that social media is not one thing it's

depending on who you're talking to what

content you're seeing what functions

you're interacting with the like button

for instance

the impact social media platforms like

Facebook Instagram and Tick Tock have on

the public notably teens is unquestioned

but what's still at play is how much of

that impact is negative we saw a big

decrease in Teen Mental Health increase

in depression

which was pretty well time locked to

when social media got really big and

when it became super engaging

that year or two as puberty is just

beginning is the second most important

time for adolescent brain development

reorganization for our entire lives and

there's a lot of growth and a lot of

changes that are happening at the

precise time that we're actually handing

them a device that we know makes their

brain react and unexpected and dramatic

ways two things that happen to occur at

the same time are not causally related

to one another so we can see some

mechanistic pieces and some signs but we

can't make causal statements as scientists

scientists

in a recent CDC study from 2011 to 2021

when social media use was booming the

percentage of teen girls who reported

persistent feelings of sadness or

hopelessness increased by nearly 60 percent

percent

it's hard to do an experiment that fully

captures the effect of Facebook and all

of the network effects where you know me

being on Facebook affects my friends

it's just really hard to study if we

don't want to wait until we have the

most conclusive proof that demonstrates

with causality what the harms will be

because the time that it takes for

science to do that kind of work will

lose an entire generation or two

despite that sentiment a study released

last month from the University of Oxford

found no evidence linking individual

Facebook data to a negative well-being

that study however was specifically for

Facebook not Instagram where the

unfortunately the state of data sharing

in 2023 is worse than it was in 2022 and

2021 companies have largely sort of uh

in Mass

closed databases that are or and apis

that were used by academics to

understand what sort of behavior was

like on the platforms API or application

programming interface allows third

parties to communicate with its product

in the past year Reddit has started

charging for API integration and X

formerly known as Twitter has largely

shut down its access very few platforms

are more open today than they have been

in the past I would pass legislation to

make data access a lot easier and more

robust so that we can get answers in

real time to have the evidence that they

need in order to do their work sort of effectively

effectively

will ever know whether social media was

net good or that bad I think it was

probably not good to be honest and I

think we have pretty strong evidence

that even if it might have been that

good for most people on average it seems

to have been bad for teenagers

particularly teenagers say from you know

age 10 to 14.

this is a time when we're saying as a

community we have to pay attention we

have to do something different

immediately and this is an urgent

scenario right now

reach for common meta which owns

Facebook and Instagram Google which owns

YouTube and Tick Tock all stress the

importance of Teen Mental Health and

highlighted the measures each platform

is taking to restrict content and

Safeguard teen well-being [Music]

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