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Charted: The Biggest Threats to Teens’ Mental Health
Both parents and teens see social media as the top threat to teen mental health.
www.visualcapitalist.com
Bruh, this had me legit laughing at the screen
And don't even get me started on how muh social media, the absolute favourite boogeyman of both the right and the left, and really of anyone above 30 I'd say, got well over twice as many percent from parents as bullying and pressure and expectations did combined
"It's all those gosh-darned Satanic devices I tell ya, all those smartphones and Facebook and I don't know what, it's all Satanic and melting their brains," - the mindset of the parents in this survey I guess
I mean, it makes sense I guess, the media is constantly shitting itself over the supposed negative effects of social media and new technologies, and they of course love scaremongering by emphasizing that it's le innocent children that are at highest risk from them, so the parents who already don't really remember what it's like to be at school and don't know whether it already isn't completely different than what they've experienced, probably will just forget that pressure and bullying are even a thing and be paranoid about social media, but still. It's ridiculous how little attention bullying gets as a danger to children and teens.
Reminder that bullying is confirmed to have a worse effect on mental health than any kind of child abuse except for sexual one, and to be roughly comparable to the latter:
Associations between exposure to childhood bullying and abuse and adulthood outcomes in a representative national U.S. sample
Negative childhood experiences are associated with poor health and psychosocial outcomes throughout one’s lifespan.We examined associations between ch…
Now think about the difference between how those two evils are perceived. Sexual abuse of children is seen as the worst of the worst. Pedophiles' deaths are cheered, they are widely seen as the lowest of the low, hundreds if not thousands of people have made careers out of "hunting" them, doxxing them and harassing them, and all of that is cheered. The literal fucking US President is currently facing serious scrutiny because people believe that he's a pedo protecting other pedos.
Now compare that with bullying. Nobody cares, nobody is interested in it, and it's so downplayed and ignored that five times as many parents think that not it, but fucking social media is that biggest threat to teens' mental health





