Electronics Weekly
Only 11% of teenagers in the U.S. described the impact of social media as mostly positive, with mental health a key concern for both teens and their parents.
55% of surveyed parents said that they’re extremely or very concerned about the mental health of teenagers these days, while 35% of teens said the same about their own generation.
When asked to name the single biggest threat to their own/their children’s mental health, teens and parents were both most likely to name social media as the one thing that impacts teens’ mental health most negatively.
While 44% of parents saw social media as the number one threat to their children’s mental wellbeing, 22% of teenagers said the same, with bullying and outside pressure/expectations also high on their minds.
“They live in a fake world of social media that limits them as human beings, distancing them from their family,” one concerned mother said about today’s teenagers, while a teenage boy said that constantly being exposed to other people’s opinions on social media was a big problem for his generation and that overuse of social media appeared to be the main cause of depression among people of his age
