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"But we need more longitudinal study on the effect and the impact of social media and phones on our kids. Yeah. So we do know, of course, though, that social media has a pull on people. Right. People know it's engaging."
"U. S. States are cracking down on social media because they're worried apps like Instagram and TikTok don't have strong enough guardrails for teens. What questions do you have about the influence of social media on kids? Or what policies we might see to counteract the negative effects of social media?"
"There is too much treatment of the population. What role do you think technology and social media play, and the mental health challenges faced by today's kids? And how, conversely, do you think parents and even therapists who are listening to this can help address these issues? Sure. So I think that social media has absolutely played a big role."
"And suicides are just the tip of the social media spear. Most kids negatively affected by social media will survive, but they'll suffer to varying degrees. Millions of children are bullied online, develop eating and or sleep disorders, suffer academically, engage in self harm, and sequester from friends and social events. These are all human costs in the shape of a profound public health crisis. Yet social media's harms are more diffuse and its causality harder to pin down."
"Cause I just think they're somewhat connected. And is there an age you think some child should not be on social. Media media as long as possible? If you had kids again right now, would your ten year old be on social or. No?"
"You can hear more from Mike on tomorrow's episode of our tech news briefing podcast. U s states are cracking down on social media because they're worried apps like Instagram and TikTok don't have strong enough guardrails for teens. What questions do you have about the influence of social media on kids? Or what policies we might see to counteract the negative effects of social media? Send us a note or even better, record a voice memo on your phone and send it to wnpod@WSJ.com that's wnpod@WSJ.com you can also leave us a voicemail at 212-416-4328 just be sure to include your name and location."
"So I've never heard anyone make a good case that 1112 and 13 year olds benefit from social media. Second, whenever I hear this argument, it usually seems to conflate the Internet with social media. So, like, during COVID you know, a lot of people say, oh, thank God for social media. What would the kids do if they didn't have social media? To which I say, yeah, can you imagine if the only way they could connect was by calling them up on the phone or texting them, or Skype or Zoom or FaceTime or multiplayer video games or many, many other ways that the Internet allows you to connect?"
"And finally, before we go, we want to hear from you on the topic of social media. States are cracking down because their worried apps like Instagram and TikTok have no guardrails for teens. In January, senators on both sides of the aisle grilled tech ceos over how their algorithms affect minors. So what questions do you have about the influence of social media on kids? Or what policies we might see to counteract the negative effects of social media?"
"Parents suing social media companies for harms that their children have suffered, state attorneys general suing the companies for not protecting children. The hearings have put a public spotlight on some of these issues and in the days leading up to the hearings, meta, for example, rolled out some additional changes to protect kids, and they announced that they are going to protect teen accounts by default from receiving videos and other content that contains things like eating disorder content, graphic violence, self harm type of content. What are some other things that social media companies are doing to potentially protect kids? There are legislative things that are being done. Several states have either proposed or passed laws requiring social media companies to verify users ages and obtain parental permission to create accounts."
"We've shared our values, and we've talked to our kids about what is going to be done to them in college campuses. And we in our family, do not allow our children to use social media, which parents misunderstand. You can give them a phone. Give them a phone and they can message. And we actually do some YouTube, which I know is technically social media, but my daughter watches dance moms on it."
"So let's jump into social media. I think social media obviously has impacts on girls and boys, but why are girls especially vulnerable to social media? So, boys and girls, the differences in their abilities are very small, but the differences in their interest are huge. As most parents will observe, what they choose to do when they have freedom is very different. And boys have more of what's called a need for agency."
"They aren't the only parents who are increasingly concerned about how much their children interact with technology such as smartphones from a young age. At the top of their concerns is social media. These platforms are designed by the brightest brains in the world to keep us all scrolling and clicking 24 hours a day. That's their business model. That's how they want to make profit, of course, for their shareholders."
"How are you managing your children with social media? Do you have set rules around it? Do you have conversations around it? That's a big question. Yeah."
"Why has social media been so bad for youth mental health? A lot of people, they talk about comparing young people's bodies and lives to each other. Certainly teenage girls do that a lot, but boys don't tend to, so that doesn't totally explain it. And the second is, why, in the last eight years, have we done nothing about it? In fact, we've given devices and social media to younger and younger kids."
"How do we ruin it? How do we take it away? What are the phones doing to our kids? What are the many pathways by which social media is harming girls? What are the many pathways by which online life is harming boys?"
"Young adolescents, right. Pre adolescent young adolescents. You tend to see social media to be more a signal for cognitive distress for young women and girls and the video games to actually be the bigger culprit for young men and boys, right. There is a bit of a difference here, because with the social media impact, the content of what's happening matters in this picture, right? So what I'm seeing, the engagement I'm having, how this impacts my social life, this is part of the mental distress with video games."
"And then I think there's no way around that. We also need to look at technology. You can't get around the fact also that the slide in youth well being coincides with the coming up of social media and how people use social media. So that can have positives and negatives. But if people use it passively, people who are young and vulnerable and what they use in terms of social media and for how long."
"I'm ready to say that the downside of social media for kids twelve and under way outweighs the upside. Sure they can find a recipe, sure they can find friendship, sure they can post interesting things and find joy in all of that. But one of the things that's being asked of us is to kind of get longitudinal data to establish the direct connection between kids using social media and all of this, increased anxiety and depression and polarization and suicidal ideation and all the rest of it, and by the way, decreased exercise and sedentary activity, all that. What they mean by longitudinal data is we have to wait one or two more generations while these kids brains are being melted. So I have seen enough."
"Like, I'm literally considering talking to the mother of my kids that my kids just aren't going to get social media. I don't think they should be on social media. I think it's detrimental to their psyche, especially during their teenage years. Right. And I'm not alone."
"So if anyone's listening to the show for more than 2 seconds, you know, the data is crystal clear that social media is adversely impacting childhood mental health. What does that mean? It is ruining our kids, period. End of story. I'm going to go one step further and say, I believe the data is leaning heavily towards handing a kid a smartphone, the entire Internet, both they get access to the Internet, or as my friend Sean says, also the entire world gets access to your kit equally."