Are Social Networks Threatening Adolescents' Mental Health?

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Are Social Networks Threatening Adolescents' Mental Health?
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Between those who condemn social networks for causing problems and those who view them as lifelines, what do we know about their impact on mental health? A new study aims to find out.

According to the authors, the typical social network practice of vaguebooking — writing a post that may incite worry, such as"better days are coming" — is a significant predictive factor of

Trolling, for its part, consists of posting provocative content with the intent of either sparking conflict or causing distress. The risk of suicide exposure should no longer be overlooked, in view of the hypothesis that some online content relating to suicide may produce a suggestive effect with respect to the idea or the method of suicide, as well as precipitating suicide attempts.

Just one of many examples is Marilyn Monroe's suicide in 1962, which increased the suicide rate by 40% in Los Angeles. The Werther effect is especially significant because two biases are present: the prestige bias and similarity bias .

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