Social Media effects on teens - notes

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Social Media Effects on Teens

Most Teens say that Social Media Makes them feels better not worse about themselves.

When using social media is envolved, things can look really different from what you see, any student can be using an app like snapchat to talk to their friends who are also in other classes, disrupting their learning too. when you cut off a teens internet access they will be mad, or act mad and secretly relieved to be free of the internets' holds on their lives.

89% of teens now have their own smartphones, compared to 41% in 2012.

reports on suicide, cyberbulling, addiction, and lacking social skills are have been pointed to social media

teens are most likely to text feelings than tell then to others face to face

Manging devices can be hit or miss. many turn off or silence their devices at key times - having dinner,

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2018/09/13/new-report-most-teens-say-social-media-makes-them-feel-better-not-worse-about-themselves/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f75d15c5f830

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Teens are hooked on social media. but how does it make them feel about themselves??

about 70% of the 90% of teens who use social media, use it multiple times a day.

some social networking servicies are increasingly critizised about being too addictive.

a poll taken by 13-17 tear-old social media users. there are different feelings about social media within the different groups of teens.

Vunurable teens - those who ranked low on the social-emotional well-being scale - see more drastic affects from social media both good and bad. They are more likely to say that social media makes them feel lonely or depressed, but they are also ore likely to say that it makes them feel less lonely or depressed than those with medium or high social-emotional well-being.

texting is the favored form of comunication with 35% of teens, followed by face to face 32% , social media 16%, and video chatting 10%

https://www.recode.net/2018/9/10/17826810/social-media-use-teens-time-spent-facebook-instagram-snapchat

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Social Media and Teens: how does social media affect teenagers mental health?

The verdict is still out on wether social media is damaging to the mental health of teens. This is in part to the lack of research. Some studies show that online connections with small groups of people can be benificial to teens, while other research points to a rise in symtoms of anxiety, depression, and eating disorders. The other reason that it is difficult to get a good read on the issue is that social media is constantly chaning and evolving. Plus, no long-term studies have been completed. So, we're left with making educated guesses based on current research. There's just not enough data to back up the potential long-term pros and cons of living on "likes."

There are positive aspects of social media. Teens who struggle with social skills, social anxiety, or who don't have easy access to face - to - face socializing with other teens might benfit from connecting with others through social media.

Teens can use social media to connect with others and create friendships, but they also can confront cyberbulling, trolls, sleep deprivation, and less frequent face - to - face interactions, ect.

https://www.psycom.net/social-media-teen-mental-health

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Teens, Social Media and Technology 2018

until recently Facebook was the most popular among america's youth but now there are more popular means of social media communication, thanks to websites such as Instagram, Youtube, and Snapchat.

there was a survey that was about how teens felt that social media was impacting their lives. minorities of teens say that it is positive(31%) or negitive(24%) but the largest group says that is is neither positive or negitive(45%)

95% of teens have a phone or have access to one. 45% of teens say that they are on social media on a near-constant basis.

The social media landscape in which teens reside looks way differernt than it did years ago. in the centers 2014 - 2015 survey of teen social media use, 71% of teen reported being facebook users. no other platform was used by a clear majority of teens at the time: around half (51%) used instagram and (41%) used snapchat. In 2018 3platforms are used more then facebook - youtube, instagram, and snapchat - are used be a large majority of teens. 51% of teens say they use facebook. the shares of teens who use twitter and tumbler are largely comparable to the shares who used those platforms in 2014 - 2015.

https://www.pewinternet.org/2018/05/31/teens-social-media-technology-2018/

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6 ways that social media affects our mental health

A study found that social media is linked to greater feelings of social isolation. people looked at how much 11 social media sites were used, including facebook, twitter, google+, youtube, linkedin, instagram, pinterest, tumbler, vine, snapchat, and reddit . then they corralated with their precieved social isolation. Not suprisingly it turned out that the more time people spent on these sites the more socially isolated they percieved themselves to be. and percieved social isolation is one of the worst things for us mentally and physically.

part of the unhealthy cycle is we keep coming back to social media even though it doesn't make us feel very good.

a couple of years ago a study found that more friends on social media doesn't nesissarily mean that you have a better social life - there seems to be a cap on the amount of friends that a persons brain can handle, and it takes actual social interaction not virtual, to keep these friendships up.

being on social media when you have time to kill or worse when you need an emotional uplift is a bad idea.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2017/06/30/a-run-down-of-social-medias-effects-on-our-mental-health/#400d3a302e5a

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Mental Health and the Effects of Social media

if social media is used as a way to size up one's own accopmplishments against against others, it can have a negitive effect. if it's used to connect with an aquantince oran old friend to see about their life - things that can cause envy - use of the leading site that can cause feelings of depression.

a study has shown that most social media users have editied and only put their most attractive photos online, or "put a rose-tinted gloss over their lives" in an effort to idealize themselves and reasearchers believe to improve others impressions of them.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/nurturing-self-compassion/201703/mental-health-and-the-effects-social-media

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Six ways social media negitivly effects your mental health

the rise of social media means that our global population is more connected than ever

our relience on social media can have a detrimental effect on our mental health. the average Brit checks their phone as much as 28 times a day.

six ways that social media could negitivly affect your metal health without your realization - self esteem, human connection, memory, sleep, attention span, and mental health.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/social-media-mental-health-negative-effects-depression-anxiety-addiction-memory-a8307196.html

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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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teens are among the most profilic social media users

studies have found that youth spend a considerable amount of their day interacting through social media.

young people use famous digital communication such as instant messiging, video chat, and social networks.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/asi.21540

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