how using social media effects teenagers

many worry about how technology could affect toddlers developmentally. preschoolers are picking up new social and cognitive skills that they could lose when being glued to a device for hours on end.
Teens are masters at keeping themselves occupied after school until late into the night. wether hey are doing homework or not they are often online on their phones texting, sharing, scrolling, ect.
before almost every teen had an instagram accounts teens kept themselves busy by chatting on their phones or in person meeting up to hang out somewhere. It may seem like it was a lot of aimless hanging around but they were experimenting and trying out skills, succeding and failing in tons of tiny real-time interactions that a lot of kids are missing out on. modern teens are learning to do most of their interactions while looking at a screen and not at another person.
learning how to make friends involves a certain amount of risk-taking. this is true for making a new friend and also keeping a friendship. but when a friendship is formed over texts or online, they are stripped of many of the most personal and sometimes intimidating aspects of communication. it's easier to keep your guard up when you're texting, so less is at stake. you aren't seeing or hearing the effect that your words are having on the other person. Because the conversation in't happening in real time, each party/person is able to take more time to respond. some kids say that calling someone on the phone is "too intense" - it requires more direct communication.
Kids and teens text things that they would never say to the persons face.
almost everyone has a phone or has access to a phone and we all respond to things pretty quickly.
Kids should be used to seeing faces not bent over screens.

https://childmind.org/article/how-using-social-media-affects-teenagers/

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Notiz am Social Media effects on teens - notes, erstellt von Savanna Jackson am 01/04/2019.