Pruthi, Sandhya. “Teens and social media use: What’s the impact?”. 28 April, 2023.

         In this article, a family physician who works for Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center General Internal Medicine discusses the social media harms and benefits. In the article it states, “ social media use can also negatively affect teens, distracting them, disrupting their sleep, and exposing them to bullying, rumor spreading, unrealistic views of other people’s lives and peer pressure.” Social media has many disadvantages for teenagers, despite the fact that they are addicted to using it constantly, it is extremely harmful to them. In the text it states, “2019 study of more than 6,500 12- to 15-year-olds in the U.S. found that those who spent more than three hours a day using social media might be at heightened risk for mental health problems… 2019 study of more than 12,000 13- to 16-year-olds in England found that using social media more than three times a day predicted poor mental health and well-being in teens.” Both studies, conducted in different nations, revealed that teenagers use social media excessively. Teengagers are unaware of the harm social media does them because of the dopamine it gives them.