As teens turn to screens for information about the world, parents may be at a loss to explain what they see. Try these methods for talking to your child about the barrage of digital content—and consider that it might not all be bad.
It’s no wonder that teens turned to their screens for information as well as connection to peers. Starting in spring 2020, social media use among 15- to 25-year-olds in the U.S. rose as much as 28 percent. TikTok in particular provided teens with content from peers and adults who shared their mental health burdens. The sounding board grew, and so did the number and types of distributors of mental health information. All flocked to the bazaar.
Ask questions like: “Where did you learn about the diagnosis?” “What parts of it do you connect with?” and “Do you know others who may have similar symptoms?” Ask if there are parts of the videos that don’t resonate with them. Offer observations that may take a different view and allow them to reflect on your thoughts.
We are not the first to point to one of Silicon Valley’s favorite tenets—move fast and break things—and say, that’s fine, as long as those broken things aren’t people. Nowhere is this risk more apparent than with TikTok’s Bold Glamour filter. It is a live-action video distortion filter that “beautifies” any person using it, altering facial features and delivering an image with flawless skin. The results are technically impressive; the filter can indeed seem to turn any face “beautiful.
internet etiquette and safety, but much of that time is spent on information-sharing and privacy, not the potential emotional effects of reality-distortion filters.The effects of a technology that creates such realistic and dynamic contrasts is especially likely to lead to dissatisfaction with one’s appearance. Parents and therapists should ask children what they know about these filters, how they use them, and how they feel about their images.
teenage girls. But developmental and clinical psychologists who actually work with adolescents do not uniformly back this hypothesis. Here’s why they, and I, remain skeptical that social media use is responsible for rising distress:
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