Experts say constant screen time on social media could be a factor in young people's declining mental health. The 2023 Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) wants to fix that.
at least five times in theaters, and Myspace is the biggest thing to hit my middle school and the internet. It was a time when the most exciting aspect of social media was selecting a super lo-res mirror selfie for my profile picture or deciding which of my friends would place in my Top 8.
Never during my time in the early days of social media did I experience even a smidge of what today's young social media users are being exposed to each and every time they log onto TikTok, Instagram, or Facebook. Nor did I spend upwards of four to six hours scrolling endlessly on social apps like today's teens. But, of course, when I was a teenager, I couldn't have because social media simply did not exist, at least not to the degree it does today. And for that, I'm grateful.
Today's constant screen time and content exposure has been shown to play a significantly large part in the declining state of young users' mental health. You've almost definitely heard this before, but the lack of momentum to actuallyanything about it has mental health experts doomed to repeat this messaging until it actually sinks in.
"In today's times, with the societal problems that we see — political, social unrest, mass school shootings, climate-change fears, global pandemic — all of this has now created the perfect storm of factors that are leading to some very significant mental health concerns among today's teenagers," says, PhD, a clinical child psychologist and clinical assistant professor in the department of child and adolescent psychiatry at NYU Langone in New York City.
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