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The daily usage numbers by these teens are fairly remarkable. Does any major government fund public research into social media addiction in the youth?
by bob_theslob646 5y ago
The daily usage numbers by these teens are fairly remarkable.
Does any major government fund public research into social media addiction in the youth?
- johnwheeler 5y agoWhere have you been for the last 10 years? And it’s not just youth. It’s adults too.
- mym1990 5y agoI think the number for teens/tweens is much higher compared to adults, and that is what they are getting at. Adults can(presumably) make their own decisions. Younger brains will likely have difficulty in finding the steps to break out of the loop.
- johnwheeler 5y agoMuch higher compared to adults? I don’t see it. Younger brains having a harder time breaking out of addiction than adults? I don’t see that either.
- bob_theslob646 5y ago"In humans, adolescence, namely the period between the early teenage years and early twenties, is a time of heightened susceptibility to the effects of addictive drugs, but previous studies have struggled to explain why. Our studies support the idea that regulation of protein synthesis by eIF2 might be the underlying cause," says senior author Mauro Costa-Mattioli. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160301103108.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160301103108.h...
- mym1990 5y ago1) Kids have less experience from which to pull from to inform them that an action might be harmful, how an action might affect those around them or when they are doing too much of something. 2) How the development of the prefrontal cortex affects decision making is a thoroughly studied topic and it is very clear that decision making ability becomes better as we mature(when looking at a significant population...again there are OBVIOUSLY outliers).