The Effects of Social Media on Young People

So there are a number of examples of the negative effects and consequences on, on young people from social media. One in our, in our case is a popular, seemingly popular, successful football player who, on the outside, you’d assume had everything going for him, and was successful and liked. And, and when we go back a year into his social media life, you see that he’s being fed perpetually information about suicide, about harming himself, about depression, and he just went down this rabbit hole on this, this path that led ultimately to suicide, even though in the real world, not on social media, he had everything going that you and I or any of us would be, thinking was just a great life. I, we’ve also seen, especially with girls, issues with body dysmorphia and self doubt and depression and we’re seeing rates of, we’ve got friends and this is just friends of our family. We’ve also seen, our family has seen, friends of ours whose daughter was also just popular at school, an athlete, seemingly had everything going for her, and by being on social media, she started to have body dysmorphia issues, questions about was she skinny enough? Was she fit enough? Was she popular enough? And ultimately, the family had to intervene and put her in a hospital for eating disorders. And, and luckily, thankfully, she’s on the other side of it, but one thing that was definitely removed was the use of social media.