Screen time is not the most important variable.
Yeah. Wow. In some of the research, folks have used the clinical dependence criteria that’s used for substance abuse and swapped out the words for “substance” with “social media.” About 50 percent of kids say that they spend more time on it than they want, they can’t quit even when they try, they’re lying or deceiving others or spending extraordinary efforts just to have ongoing access. It’s interfering with their roles, their relationships, their homework.
Then there is the content question. Even with parental controls, the nature of the internet and how people behave on it means teens can be exposed to just about anything.Remember that there’s a lot of good that can come from social media, and there are some things that are risky too—but every kid’s going to respond differently.
The majority of kids are telling us that they are exposed to extreme discrimination or hate or online cyberbullying on several occasions as they use [social media]. And one of the things that happens to kids—well, it happens to adults, too—is that we engage in a process of overgeneralization. You see a post, it’s awful. You see that there are a few likes and comments. You read them; you have a choice. You could say, “Wow, there are five people that think that way.
What we know right now is that one of the first areas of the adolescent brains to develop is that area that makes us really attuned to social experiences with peers. Whenever you’re getting attention or someone nods or smiles or makes you feel powerful, it makes you feel good temporarily. And that’s because of a little dopamine oxytocin release in that area of the brain that develops a couple of years before you see puberty starting to occur based on observable features.
We’re seeing that kids have more diverse friends, get more social support, and engage in more civic activism online than offline.Frances Haugen leaked some of the Facebook files, there was some really interesting internal data from Meta that basically showed that Instagram in particular seemed to be really hard for teen girls because they were comparing themselves against one another.Scientists, much like parents, are having a hard time keeping up with it all because it changes so rapidly.
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