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Negativity impact of social media on teenagers lives
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- BM1001
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- University Of Central Lancashire
In which ways social media negatively affects teenagers social lives
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Does social media negatively impact bad onteenagers?
Females may experience a negative link between 11 and
13, while guys may do so between 14 and 15.
By age 19, increased social media use could also have a
negative impact on life satisfaction, however
Teenagers who are less satisfied with their lives
frequently utilize social media more.
According to a study released by an international team of academics,
including specialists from the Oxford Internet Institute, girls and boys
may be more susceptible to the harmful consequences of social media
use at various points of their adolescence.
In a study published in Nature Communications, According to studies
from the UK, girls between the ages of 11 and 13 and males between the
ages of 14 and 15 perceive a negative relationship between social media
use and life satisfaction. Lower life satisfaction at age 19 is also
predicted by increased social media use.
“Sensitivity to social media use might be linked to developmental changes,
possibly changes in the structure of the brain, or to puberty, which occurs
later in boys than in girls”
This suggests that sensitivity to social media may be related to
developmental changes, changes in brain structure or the onset of
puberty later in boys than in girls. But for both, social media use at age
19 was again associated with lower life satisfaction. According to
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