A new survey reveals the social media habits of today's teens and experts discuss the potential effects on their mental well-being.
So, social media certainly affects youth mental health, said Dr. Laura Erickson-Schroth, the chief medical officer for an organization focused on mental health for teens and young adults. But exactly how and for which young people in what ways is really complicated. We might know more about the effects of social media use if the companies were more transparent with their algorithms. We don't have access to the outputs that they're seeing in terms of how it's affecting their users, she said.
The Pew Research Center surveyed teens ages 13 to 17 this fall on their social media and internet usage. Every teen who took part in the survey has known nothing but a world with the internet always at their fingertips.Over half use TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat. Boys are more likely than girls to use YouTube almost constantly. Facebook, once the king of social media sites for teens, is now used by just around a third of teens. Over 70% of teens used Facebook a decade ago. TikTok’s the one that I think if you're a parent, you might have the most concerns with of the content they're consuming and the endless stream of content, saidSelepak said TikTok is so algorithmic-based that it can put you down a rabbit hole of content.YouTube has an algorithm, but users tend to consume more content on YouTube that they purposely sought out, he said. While there are videos on there of people who are kind of clout-chasing and engaging in negative behavior, I think that's just a smaller portion of the videos that are on YouTube, he said. Selepak said Instagram tends to show users more content from the people they follow, which can be friends and family. He said that’s changing a bit with Instagram pushing more Reels, short videos, into people’s timelines. And he said parents likely don’t need to be overly concerned about what their teens are seeing on Snapcha
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