The Briefing Room
General Category => Health/Education => Topic started by: Gefn on May 23, 2023, 12:05:30 pm
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Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, long a proponent of mental health awareness, has issued a warning that social media use is a main contributor to depression, anxiety and other problems in the nation's teenagers.
The report, released Tuesday, calls attention to growing concerns about the effects of social media use on children and adolescent's mental health. The advisory urges policymakers and the companies that make the social media platforms to share with parents the burden of managing children's and adolescents’ social media use.
Murthy calls youth mental health “the defining public health issue of our time,” urging policymakers to help ensure strong safety standards to help protect adolescents and teens from exposure to harmful content and excessive use.
Up to 95% of teens between the ages of 13 and 17 say they use a social media platform, according to the report. About a third say they're scrolling, posting or otherwise engaged with social media "almost constantly."
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/social-media-mental-health-anxiety-depression-teens-surgeon-general-rcna85575
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Duh.
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Academia is right up there with social media in driving young people crazy, then. It's no wonder hordes of children have been convinced they're something they're not.
ripx4nutmeg
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A Cambridge University Press published study by Göttingen University has concluded that up to 10% of people in prehistoric Europe probably identified as non-binary, because some female skeletons were "interred with masculine goods such as fishing hooks" https://t.co/qHmlyrqhDn
Emily Zanotti 🦝
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Cavewomen may not have adhered to strict gender roles formed centuries after their deaths, now now these poor prehistoric women are non-binary 😂😅
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Academia is right up there with social media in driving young people crazy, then. It's no wonder hordes of children have been convinced they're something they're not.
You have got to be kidding me (the linked story from Cambridge University).
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All you women who enjoy fishing are really trannies, per Cambridge University. *****rollingeyes*****