Our team of journalists and researchers have been looking into the impact of social media on mental health and new insights along with infographics from Statista and others paint a good picture of what’s really going on in the world today. Let’s dig into it more.
First and foremost, we can all agree social has produced a profound impact on younger generations which will continue to proliferate over time, and with such we can only anticipate problems from the past/current being exacerbated. Statista does a fantastic job covering such in this post: Social Media: The Biggest Threat to Teens’ Mental Health?
Additionally, Pew Research Center’s coverage of this topic is gold: “Most teens credit social media with feeling more connected to friends. Still, roughly 1 in 5 say social media sites hurt their mental health, and growing shares think they harm people their age.”
The moral of the story is that yes, social media has a clear and quantifiable impact on mental health in a multitude of ways.