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The Effects of Social Media on Mental Health
TikTok provides a dopamine hit perhaps faster, better and more pleasurably than any other app. Anything that connects us to others triggers this sense of pleasure because it's an evolutionary response. Social media apps capitalize on this survival mechanism for their own profit. The rise in anxiety, depression and attempted suicides among teenage girls is particularly frightening.