Common Sense via a Survey: Social Media and Kiddies. Guess the Results?
January 29, 2021
I read “Social Media Damages Teenagers’ Mental Health, Report Says.” I had a college professor who loved studies like this. Grant money. Demonstrate the obvious. Write a research paper. Get more grant money. Repeat.
The write up reports:
Teenagers’ mental health is being damaged by heavy social media use, a report has found.
Yikes! Who knew?
Here’s what the academic wizards unearthed, almost the discovery of the Twitter and Facebook era, and I quote:
- One in three girls was unhappy with their personal appearance by the age of 14, compared with one in seven at the end of primary school
- The number of young people with probable mental illness has risen to one in six, up from one in nine in 2017
- Boys in the bottom set at primary school had lower self-esteem at 14 than their peers.
I wonder if the youthful person wearing fur and horns in the US Capitol a couple of weeks ago is a manifestation of delayed youth.
On the other hand, mobile neck has become a thing. Quite surprising that social media is not the wonderland of community and positivity that some folks assumed.
Imagine that! Assume. Ass of you and me, according to another instructor in college who seemed less inclined to research common sense under a grant umbrella.
Stephen E Arnold, January 28, 2021
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