A new advisory from the U.S. surgeon general warns of an urgent public health issue regarding social media usage and youth mental health.
In the new advisory, released Tuesday, Dr. Vivek H. Murthy calls for more research to determine the extent of mental health impacts on young people, including the type of content generating the most harm, societal factors that could protect youth and ways in which social media can be beneficial.
Most social media platforms have a minimum user age of 13, which Murthy says he believes is "too early" for kids to be on social media, describing the age as a "time when kids are developing their identity, their sense of self." He says parents should create family media plans, establish tech-free zones and encourage children to foster in-person friendships.
Mitchell Prinstein, Ph.D., chief science officer of the APA, told ABC News that as it stands now, the time in life that kids' brains develop the most is also when they are most exposed to social media. Dr. Colette Poole-Boykin, a child psychiatrist and assistant professor at Yale University, told ABC News that the reality may be worse than data shows because children may underestimate the time they report spending on social media.
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