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We Need To Talk About Teens, Social Media And Mental Health

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The Effects of Social Media on Mental Health

The study found that engaging with Facebook decreases a person's mental health by roughly about 22%. Virginia, there's a lot of limits to this study, right? A lot of teens are using less and less. This was a bare bones version of social media. There was no newsfeed. So possibly this study underestimates the effect of Facebook. Okay. Next up: More recent studies dealing with current social media usage.

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