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.

  • super_user_do
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    3511 months ago

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

    • @kameecoding
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      1011 months ago

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

      I doubt we knew it’s effects for decades

      • @QuandaleDingle
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        11 months ago

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

      • Encrypt-Keeper
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        111 months ago

        A little over two decades actually.

  • @[email protected]
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    1011 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.

  • @Lemming6969
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    411 months ago

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