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Social Media and Teen Depression
When social went on mobile in 2013, you immediately saw skyrocketing rates and self harm and depression and suicide attempts among girls. The number of hospital admissions for self cutting has gone up anywhere between 60 and 120% among girls. And what we have with social media is you're presented with your full self 24 by seven but the teen brain doesn't have the ability to modulate it. We've put these nuclear weapons in their hands with phones with social media. I said I'd rather give my 15 year old kids a bottle of Jack in a bag of marijuana than an Instagram account. This has been a disaster, especially for girls.