Teens open up about the impact of social media on their lives

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9 ай бұрын

Social media can have negative, sometimes dire, impacts on teens’ physical and mental health. NBC’s Kate Snow sits with four teens to learn about their social media usage and then Dr. Argie Allen Wilson, a family therapist, and Larissa May, a digital wellness activist, field questions from a panel of parents.
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@carnivoreforlifepodcast5664 9 ай бұрын

Eat real food. Get real sunlight. Talk to real people and develop relationships. Stay off social media. Enjoy your life.

@courtneyb3391 9 ай бұрын

This 💯

@Robschnitzel 7 ай бұрын

German school system and getting rich, says no to this sadly

@cornitacassel777 2 ай бұрын

Amen ❤

@arthurau9231 9 ай бұрын

Funny how no one said You Tube.

@YungJuazOfficial 3 ай бұрын

Children’s brains are just developing. Social media is not what they should be on. I feel like these kids posting on social media without talent just want to be famous and popular and like changing themselves for others. Stop changing yourself for others. Be yourself. Also they should be careful with the people they hang around. Bad influences = crime being committed

@FollowmedowntheNumberWhole 9 ай бұрын

I love that Sophie is still aware of her 10 year old self, and protecting her. That is indicative of advanced healing and I'm so happy for her that she's been able to address and deal with her inner child and the work around that. May it be so for all of us. 🙏❤

@LR-mh8hs 9 ай бұрын

Parents: Do not give your kids a smartphone until they are close to being adults. You have no idea what they are watching when you are not around. Also, if you buy them a phone and allow them to take it to school, guess what? They'll be on their phones for a good portion of the day.

@ethanchasejackson 4 ай бұрын

But how else will parents stay in contact with their kids? Times are dangerous now.

@LR-mh8hs 4 ай бұрын

@@ethanchasejackson At school there is this thing called a landline phone that is in each classroom and the school's office too.

@LR-mh8hs 4 ай бұрын

@@ethanchasejackson Fip phones.

@07Flash11MRC Ай бұрын

@ethan: There are also smartwatches with access to telephone services such as calling or texting.

@holly_wood26 5 ай бұрын

Genetics loads the gun...Society pulls the trigger...When I developed my eating disorder it was in the early 2000s and it was triggered by pressure at school and going on a diet and magazines just made it worse. Today, it's social media that makes it worse, but it's important to know that social media is not the reason for eating disorders. Eating disorders are a symptom of a bigger problem that someone is dealing with. Social media exasperates it, but it's not the reason.

@07Flash11MRC Ай бұрын

Correlation doesn't equal causation. Not everything is anybody's genes' fault.

@joycebruhn1346 5 ай бұрын

i am saddened by all teens today the way they process life its, heartbreaking .. searching for happiness yet in all the wrong places and activities .. you are loved but you dont freel loved ..they turn to things all teens turned to in past but the streets even the work places have far worse humans .. im just sad ... value yourself .. first find the right path i mean having two drinks after work on a friday or saturday is quite different from substance abuse ...just so sad i wish i could savethem all i watch adults and teens doing wrong .. abusing drunks .. not valuing yourself ...

@iremozbey007 Ай бұрын

I just use youtube anymore but its still more than 4 hours a day

@sr2291 9 ай бұрын

No one has to be on social media. No way I would allow my daughter to have a smart phone until she was at least 16.

@abantimukherjee9745 16 күн бұрын

yes but you also have to realise how isolated it would make her from her peers in school. My mother did the same, I am grateful to her but I am 21 now and I have never had friends. In school people would avoid talking to me as I was oblivious of new trends or shows, new web series, whixh celebrity they were crushing blah blah. By the time I was in college, I tried opening a social media and follow trends but people on those platforms seemed too stupid and aggressive so I had to leave everything. The people in my college seem used to it and they only want to be acquaintance with me, not freinds. I have accepted that my entire life is going to be lonely but I also understand how avoiding social media has made me a kinder person.

@user-ek6jn6tg6h 16 күн бұрын

@@abantimukherjee9745 So you have to raise your kids in accordance to other lazy parents . Got it

@TUBESTOOL 28 күн бұрын

This is good news. It's a parents responsibility to foster healthy communication with their children. Be present and positive, and they will want to do the same. Great work, Larissa.

@Syamhouse 7 күн бұрын

They rarely look away from it. I live in a house where I literally don’t exist. I have not used phones since 2005.

@anacruz7264 3 ай бұрын

it’s just so toxic

@OanhLe-rb4jf Ай бұрын

Just stay off the phone. You are the person using the phone, the phone is not going to use you. If you're looking for peer recognition then it's better if it's done through the school. You're not addicted to social media, you're addicted to your phone. You ever heard your parents/teacher yell at you "Pay attention!"? Focus on what's in front of you and not your phone. The feeds are programmed, there are people running businesses on social media, and it's also used for marketing. You're all kids and you're mistakening it with your own identities. If you have role models and people you want to look up to that's great but it doesn't make much sense to have hurt feelings over things you don't have to even look at. Get off the phone.

@mikem3789 9 ай бұрын

Hopefully every young person who reads this, comes to understand, they do NOT have to, give over their own confidence, to jerk(s)!!! Individuals who are ‘mean’ do not deserve the upper hand in gaining from situations, whereby they exist, to try to deplete the self esteem of another/others. Hopefully the young people understand and retain the knowledge of keeping the company/friends of (good/decent hearted humans). Hopefully. Also be great, if faith in God, Jesus Christ and The Holy Spirit, would be their guiding light. Too much toxicity online, on the internet.

@gillowens24 9 ай бұрын

When I was Teenager no iPhones was phone no smartphones

@destinydelgado2036 25 күн бұрын

during when I was middle school I wasn't allow to have social media, I have to wait when I was a freshman in high school, now I'm almost 19 and still alive and good but yeah there some days I feel alone and people on social media like on instagram and TikTok, yeah they are so mean and they can bring me down but you know I just block them and not care about it and suicide doesn't really affect me well sometimes. it true social media does affect other people and it can cause depression and suicide thoughts.

@user-ox4nw3fi4i 9 ай бұрын

"IF" I Did Not Obey The Rule's The Next Month "I" Had NO PHONE!!! How Will I Pay It.😢

@Multi1163 8 ай бұрын

Put the phone away

@HighseezZ 7 ай бұрын

Df I look like paying for therapy if I can talk to my cusin for close friend😂

@Saved.by.Jesus. 2 ай бұрын

Social media dangerous. Read your Bible. Read your Bible, and develop your prayer life. Life is spiritual. You cannot survive without the Bible and prayer.

@HighseezZ 7 ай бұрын

These ppl don’t need therapy they need love plus therapy should be free

@juns597 Ай бұрын

"Lead with curiousity, ask them what really excites you about the digital world. Show me, cuz I have no idea what a FOR YOU page is," says the 20-someting year old who has no idea what it's like to be a mother. I say, don't give them access to social media until they're out of high school. That's the way to keep your kids safe. Yeah. they'll see it at their friend's but you can tell the kid's parents to keep that in mind, too. We're way too lenient and liberal. That's the biggest issue.

@jahnavibilur3402 4 ай бұрын

This was not a bad video - but it spreads no awareness about tiktok and how it is literally autodownloaded on people's phones. It is used a lot in the youth community and fully comprised of non-stop, varied genre and flashy videos. The teens mention "reels" "mostly funny tiktok videos" and "instagram body image". But I don't get the amnesia over when the curly-haired young woman said 'I use tijtok to fall asleep'. I don't get how that is supposed to be good platform if used for >one hour and everyday. But, we digress... I use it too as a young adult. Something i observed is that there seems to be all these cultures and subcultures i'm surrounded by by my age group as a result of the app and it's trends and values, these days. I'm not sure it's always good, hope i don't experience the indirect impact. All our minds should have a confident and active forefront - cause young, growing minds are all like sponges.

@aaronmartin7086 Ай бұрын

I have no friends.

@AGxProductions 4 ай бұрын

They didn't answer the 1st Woman's question... Fail... As a Parent, I nvr gave my Kids tht much freedom. They had 2 earn it; we kept tabs on their activities. Schoolwrk & Bible Studies all week, Games & other tech on wknds & holidays ONLY, and IF they did all their chores. Plus, we made sure they had friends visiting & going out weekly, along w/othr Parents & responsible Adults. Today, they r doing well & no tech-addictions 4 thm & plenty of In-Person relationships. Loved thm too much 2 let thm b molded by ths sick, stupid world. We fought HARD 2 help thm be happy, responsible independent Citizens.