Teens open up about the impact of social media on their lives

Eat real food. Get real sunlight. Talk to real people and develop relationships. Stay off social media. Enjoy your life.

Funny how no one said You Tube.

Children’s brains are just developing. Social media is not what they should be on. I feel like these kids posting on social media without talent just want to be famous and popular and like changing themselves for others. Stop changing yourself for others. Be yourself. Also they should be careful with the people they hang around. Bad influences = crime being committed

No one has to be on social media. No way I would allow my daughter to have a smart phone until she was at least 16.

I love that Sophie is still aware of her 10 year old self, and protecting her. That is indicative of advanced healing and I'm so happy for her that she's been able to address and deal with her inner child and the work around that. May it be so for all of us. 🙏❤

Parents: Do not give your kids a smartphone until they are close to being adults. You have no idea what they are watching when you are not around. Also, if you buy them a phone and allow them to take it to school, guess what? They'll be on their phones for a good portion of the day.

I just use youtube anymore but its still more than 4 hours a day

I'm so happy and grateful that I grew up without social media. I can live a happy fufulling life without it.

i am saddened by all teens today the way they process life its, heartbreaking .. searching for happiness yet in all the wrong places and activities .. you are loved but you dont freel loved ..they turn to things all teens turned to in past but the streets even the work places have far worse humans .. im just sad ... value yourself .. first find the right path i mean having two drinks after work on a friday or saturday is quite different from substance abuse ...just so sad i wish i could savethem all i watch adults and teens doing wrong .. abusing drunks .. not valuing yourself ...

Just stay off the phone. You are the person using the phone, the phone is not going to use you. If you're looking for peer recognition then it's better if it's done through the school. You're not addicted to social media, you're addicted to your phone. You ever heard your parents/teacher yell at you "Pay attention!"? Focus on what's in front of you and not your phone. The feeds are programmed, there are people running businesses on social media, and it's also used for marketing. You're all kids and you're mistakening it with your own identities. If you have role models and people you want to look up to that's great but it doesn't make much sense to have hurt feelings over things you don't have to even look at. Get off the phone.

Genetics loads the gun...Society pulls the trigger...When I developed my eating disorder it was in the early 2000s and it was triggered by pressure at school and going on a diet and magazines just made it worse. Today, it's social media that makes it worse, but it's important to know that social media is not the reason for eating disorders. Eating disorders are a symptom of a bigger problem that someone is dealing with. Social media exasperates it, but it's not the reason.

This is good news. It's a parents responsibility to foster healthy communication with their children. Be present and positive, and they will want to do the same. Great work, Larissa.

They rarely look away from it. I live in a house where I literally don’t exist. I have not used phones since 2005.

it’s just so toxic

When I was Teenager no iPhones was phone no smartphones

Hopefully every young person who reads this, comes to understand, they do NOT have to, give over their own confidence, to jerk(s)!!! Individuals who are ‘mean’ do not deserve the upper hand in gaining from situations, whereby they exist, to try to deplete the self esteem of another/others. Hopefully the young people understand and retain the knowledge of keeping the company/friends of (good/decent hearted humans). Hopefully. Also be great, if faith in God, Jesus Christ and The Holy Spirit, would be their guiding light. Too much toxicity online, on the internet.

Its too exhausting to monitor every app for parents limit one or two apps o😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

Put the phone away

during when I was middle school I wasn't allow to have social media, I have to wait when I was a freshman in high school, now I'm almost 19 and still alive and good but yeah there some days I feel alone and people on social media like on instagram and TikTok, yeah they are so mean and they can bring me down but you know I just block them and not care about it and suicide doesn't really affect me well sometimes. it true social media does affect other people and it can cause depression and suicide thoughts.

"IF" I Did Not Obey The Rule's The Next Month "I" Had NO PHONE!!! How Will I Pay It.😢