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Countries Seek to Curb Social Media Addiction for Kids
Social media plays a significant, multifaceted role in adolescents’ development, influencing how they communicate, learn, socialize, and express themselves. The benefits, however, are accompanied by risks that can undermine youngsters’ character as well as their cognitive and social development. The potential problems include excessive screen time , social media addiction , cyberbullying , misinformation , radicalization , privacy violations , exposure to inappropriate content , sextortion , and doomscrolling . A recent study published in Nature: Human Behaviour found that adolescents who begin using social media at an early age tend to have significantly lower academic performance. A Mashable article highlights additional issues including effects on mental health , self-harm , addiction to social media , compulsive, repetitive checking , and exposure to pornography and violent material
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Social media plays a significant, multifaceted role in adolescents’ development, influencing how they communicate, learn, socialize, and express themselves. The benefits, however, are accompanied by risks that can undermine youngsters’ character as well as their cognitive and social development. The potential problems include excessive screen time , social media addiction , cyberbullying , misinformation , radicalization , privacy violations , exposure to inappropriate content , sextortion , and doomscrolling . A recent study published in Nature: Human Behaviour found that adolescents who begin using social media at an early age tend to have significantly lower academic performance. A Mashable article highlights additional issues including effects on mental health , self-harm , addiction to social media , compulsive, repetitive checking , and exposure to pornography and violent material
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According to IEEE Spectrum’s source item, Countries Seek to Curb Social Media Addiction for Kids, Social media plays a significant, multifaceted role in adolescents’ development, influencing how they communicate, learn, socialize, and express themselves. The benefits, however, are accompanied by risks that can undermine youngsters’ character as well as their cognitive and social development. The potential problems include excessive screen time , social media addiction , cyberbullying , misinformation , radicalization , privacy violations , exposure to inappropriate content , sextortion , and doomscrolling . A recent study published in Nature: Human Behaviour found that adolescents who begin using social media at an early age tend to have significantly lower academic performance. A Mashable article highlights additional issues including effects on mental health , self-harm , addiction to social media , compulsive, repetitive checking , and exposure to pornography and violent material
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