The dark side of social media on youth mental health

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The dark side of social media on youth mental health
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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.

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

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

I doubt we knew it's effects for decades

Speak for yourself; I thought Facebook was shitty back in 1984.

Iirc, I was about 16 when Myspace was a thing. I'm gonna be 40 very soon

We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas.

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.

To quote pink Floyd: There is no dark side. Matter of fact, it's all dark.