Facebook and Twitter 'harm young people's mental health'
The four platforms have a negative effect because they can exacerbate children’s and young people’s body image worries, and worsen bullying, sleep problems and feelings of anxiety, depression and loneliness, the participants said. Instagram has the most negative impact on young people’s mental wellbeing, a survey of almost 1,500 14- to 24-year-old found, and the health groups accused it of deepening young people’s feelings of inadequacy and anxiety. Social media such as Snapchat, Facebook and Twitter are also harmful. Among the five only YouTube was judged to have a positive impact. These reasons are a growing concern among politicians, health bodies, doctors, charities and parents about young people suffering harm as a result of sexting, cyber-bullying and social media reinforcing feelings of self-loathing and even the risk of them committing suicide.
[] YouTube scored very badly for its impact on sleep but positively in nine of the 14 categories, notably awareness and understanding of other people’s health experience, self-expression, loneliness, depression and emotional support
In my opinion: Social media is becoming a concern for the individuals that are consistently on those sites as it can make them conscience about themselves because of the how the people on the Internet represent themselves can be seen as something that is not true. I feel though as this is something that can be controlled as for example how many times young people consume on the social media platforms to decrease their exposure to mental illness
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