What impact has social media had on teens and their mental health? It's so alarming that Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, wants to add a warning label.
Welcome, everyone. I'm Dr. John Whyte, the chief medical officer at WebMD. How much time do your teens spend on social media ? How do you know when it's too much? Is it good, or is it bad to be spending that amount of time that many teens do?
But I worry that sometimes in our discussion of social media, we have allowed ourselves to think because there are benefits for some, that, that somehow means that we should tolerate all of the harms that we're seeing, which doesn't really comport with how we generally approach other products that kids use.And you have a very interesting statistic in the advisory, and I want to read it.
They're telling us, in no small numbers, that social media is making them feel worse about their body image, that they feel addicted to it, and it's hard for them to get off. It's keeping them up past midnight on weeknights, which is taking away from sleep, both quality and quantity of sleep. I just want to put this in perspective for a moment.
But on social media, perhaps, there are some benefits, as we talked about. Although it may be outweighed by the risks. So what would this label look like?Yeah, so here's why. A warning label warns people about the harms that we're seeing. It warns them when we've a lack of evidence of safety. And that's what we can do here. That's what we should do here.
But here's the last thing to keep in mind. Something that I said last year when I issued a Surgeon General's advisory on social media and something I reiterated this year when I called for a warning label is that a warning label is not the entire solution to addressing the harms of social media. It is one part of a broader solution set.
We've been talking about the impacts on youth mental health. But almost every time I talk about this, adults raise their hand and say,"Hey, we're struggling too." I know that this is not easy to do, but when we create boundaries around our use of social media, when we put our devices away and when we're talking to our kids, when we're talking to family and friends, we actually help model the kind of behavior we want our kids to take.
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