SURGEON GENERAL WARNING: SOCIAL MEDIA
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy called Monday for placing tobacco-style warning labels on social media to alert users that the platforms can harm children’s mental health, escalating his warnings about the effects of online services such as Facebook, Instagram and TikTok.
Writing in a New York Times opinion essay, Murthy urged Congress to enact legislation requiring that social media platforms include a surgeon general’s warning to “regularly remind parents and adolescents that social media has not been proved safe.”
He cited evidence that adolescents who spend significant time on social media are at greater risk of experiencing anxiety and depression and that many young people say the platforms have worsened their body image. Murthy said warning labels, like those on tobacco and alcohol products, have been shown to change people’s behaviors.
The surgeon general’s call to action comes as regulators and legislators increasingly scrutinize links between social media use and children’s mental health, ushering in a wave of proposals to expand protections for children on the internet. Lawmakers have likened tech’s impact on youths to that of Big Tobacco and urged swift action to counteract what they call a driving force in the youth mental health crisis.
Yet despite the bipartisan outcry, there is still significant debate within the scientific community about the extent to which social media use may be causing mental health issues among children and teens. Researchers and public officials have pushed to increase federal funding to study the topic, and they have criticized tech companies for not making more internal data on the matter available to the public.
I wanna make fun of US lawmakers but then i remember a couple years ago the government from my homeland banned the doggystyle position because "a large number of individuals are at risk of heart attacks on valentines day and Christmas".
If this is bait then bravo you have me hook line and sinker, but if it isn’t how is that even enforced? Also where are you from if you don’t mind me asking
@@rageranger2560 i think south africa.
@@rageranger2560 reminds me how apparently only missionary was allowed in the US military, iirc to discriminate against gay men.
Its actually the opposite, the health minister for South Africa banned the position in 2018 due to “major cause of cancer and stroke” and he actually said its okay to do it occasionally like on Valentines Day or Christmas Day. His reasoning is doggy causes fatigue for men and fatigue causes cancer and strokes which rates have gone up in his country.
@@rageranger2560Im South African and its real but almost nobody cares😂
A reference from a 🌿PSA from the '80s
Oh shiiii. That jnlocked a deep.seated memory
HELP ME
It was heroin, which is derived from the opium within the opium poppy, not cannabis. Js.
@@thedirewolfking2274 what are you yapping about
I was a child when that commercial aired and I remember being SO curious about what exactly the kid had been hiding in the box. The government put drugs on my radar. I wouldn't have known about them that early otherwise. Funny....
If you want kids to stop being on their phones give them stuff to do IRL. So much stuff costs money, in certain places it’s straight up dangerous, and the enforcement of loitering laws has gotten a lot worse.
Feel v lucky to live out in the country were I can just walk down the road, but also I don’t do that very often cause people speed down this road at 70+ and there’s a bunch of hills
Arcades nowadays cost an arm and a leg
yea, it feels like community events are so important but then some places just don't have them even thoguh there's plenty of people in the population.
if they wanna pass laws to help people, especially youth, get outside and interact more. Then they need to do things that gives benefits to community events, adjust how laws like loitering are handled like you said, maybe even budget infrastructure more for walkable cities (instead of it always going into roads) and community spaces.
but they'd rather wage culture wars instead because it gets them votes and money.
No wonder the kids stay inside all day. Can't go to anywhere fun without mommy taxi
Where I live, there's a pet salon, a post office, and a couple churches I've never seen anyone walk into that are within walking distance. There's not even a park or anything in the neighborhood for kids to play at. Older people pick on me for constantly looking at a screen, but there's nothing else to do.
It’s amazing how so many of our problems today could be solved by the existence of a third place.
I caught my son mainlining instagram in the bathroom last year. Went to rehab, got clean. A year later I stop by his house and hes on the floor. 4chan overdose. It can happen to anyone.
4chan overdose is the most dumb thing I've read all day.
@@user-hm9cd9yb8x Hey buddy, your username and password are two separate things. Hope this helps.
@@user-hm9cd9yb8xright? 4chan? This guy doesn't know his street socials. His kid clearly died of a TikTok overdose. I hear that's the big one now. I saw on fox people were handing it out with Halloween candy last year.
One minute on /b/ is equivalent to 16 years of childhood trauma.
No not 4Chan 😭
Honestly the ending really hits at the heart of the issue. Parents have not been doing a great job limiting their children’s intake of the internet. All things in moderation and I say that as an adult that spends way too much time online myself. I think we need to take a look in the mirror as a society and come to terms with the fact that we don’t need to be online as much as we do and we should really put down the devises more often because this is how our kids pick up their habits by watching us. But we can’t put down the phone or get off the computer to set a good example so we are going to ask the government to do it for us.
The technology adapted very fast and got us while we were vulnerable. Generally speaking I think awareness around the issue is growing, but you should be an example for your own circle! I've talked to a lot of my friends about screen time and shared mindfulness techniques to be more intentional with my time. 😊
Omg your pfp is classic days of Xbox
@@kaitkatbar177 yes
I still yell "i learned it by watching you!" At my wife. She doesn't think I'm funny
We do. We dooooooooooooooo!!!!
That's a shame.
You are DEFINITELY a funny! ❤
I have an ex that thought that was funny too! Unfortunately they were incapable of being serious ever.
The joke itself is funny. But if yiu have a partner thats always focused on being funny, nothing is funny anymore. Im not sayinf youre that way! Mine was. Its huge little brother energy and i wanted a partner
@@brocksampson2590yeah completely. I like taking most of life like a joke but there are some things, things that cause a pain no one and nothing can touch, that should not be joked about. It’s irritating and feels invalidating.
The subject of this thread obviously isn’t that but just wanted to say I’ve known those people too. It’s bad when I think it’s too much. Anyone that knows me knows that.
But joking about old PSAs is awesome
"I did my research on facebook!" Dad forgot facebook was social media. XD
Also omg the dramatic music haha yes.
Honestly, he probably doesn't know.
yes i think that was the joke
Ahh the way a joke improves when it gets explained
That's the joke.
Guys. Yes I got the joke. That's why there's a little emoticon? You know.... XD
Psychology is my field. I'll say that the APA always lags behind the research and that like many things social media isn't inherently negative, but the manner and frequency it is used can lead to negative consequences in cogitation and behavior. Also, for those that aren't in the sciences when an institution or paper says we need more research that isn't surprising because they nearly all say that. Which is true, we need more research, so we better understand it.
Yeah I’m also in psychology and just the sheer amount of content that is consumed can be very overwhelming for a developing brain. Some content that some children are exposed to aren’t where they are developmentally can skew perspectives. But social media itself isn’t the issue. Just the content consumed
Nah kids just genuinely don't need to be on the Internet except for websites designed for them
@@jaidaseiters2723 Yeah I like the idea of social media, where everyone gets to share their stories.
However in my experience, obviously not objective, I found that all the negative content on platforms did effect my mood negatively.
Everyone says we need more research because they want people to cite theirs lol
I wonder how much of the negative consequences just comes from realizing how fked up the world is/people are and losing hope?
No board? Unbelievable
someone call the IRS...
Was about to say this!
How could he? I mean, he expensed it!
Literally unwatchable
his goose is cooked now
I do also think it’s worth mentioning the diagnosis rates for kids with social media versus without, you have a higher chance of being able to see symptoms in yourself and ask to get tested leading to higher diagnosis rates, my parents who were supposed to know me better than anyone else and were supposed to be the people i trust the most couldn’t even consider the idea that i had depression, anxiety and adhd before i was diagnosed, the only way i ever even got tested was a mix of information from the internet and a very helpful guidance counselor in my senior year of highschool
Not exactly refuting your statement here but its worth thinking about the fact that if you have a whole family for example that uses social media, or even really just children. Then parents can not really be expected to know us better than anyone else. As someone in their early 20s that has spent a bunch of time on the internet even when i wasnt “allowed to”….i feel like ive lived multiple lives on the internet that my family could never even begin to understand… the things ive done… the people ive met… they have all affected me in ways that no one other than me can even know. And this effect can lead to parents not knowing their children, children not knowing their siblings…etc until we all feel misunderstood in some way due to a system that was supposed to bring us all closer together.
@@ivan_d_feets4495 there is also the fact that most parents work to much to pay enough attention on their kids as they mostly come home to make dinner and sleep.
This leads to not seeing ADHD as internet covers for that
Depression is also something hard as people grow up they'll tend to gravitate towards friends/games thus interact with their parents less and less. Unless you get suicidal it's almost impossible to tell as it could just be seen as your "character."
Anxiety would be the hardest as unless you have a panic attack it's just similar symptoms of by shy towards new things.
Social Media is both good/bad as more and more reports of constant negative feeds, and the over abundance of information about world events and things like that, the more we are getting to understand how impactful social media is.
Pretty sure there was a recent report that got people to reduce or remove social media out of their lives for a period of time that resulted in reductions in anxiety levels. Don't remember if it talked about depression and other things, but that alone seems beneficial.
It sounds like you *just* have bad parents, which throws your whole point out the window.
Internet ≠ social media. And social media lead self diagnosis leads to over diagnosis in general
@@simpletube11self diagnosis is a completely reasonable and fair thing to do, especially in countries where medical access is so bad. I was able to do all the research needed before approaching my medical team (that I was lucky to have) to help us get an "official" diagnosis quicker. Guess what? I had everything I self diagnosed, down to genetic disorders that we did DNA testing for. It would have required years more of testing if I didn't have access to the tools you think are useless and damaging, which would have meant my disabilities would have gotten worse as they are progressive and degenerative.
“I learned it by watching you!.” 😂😂😂😂 every child of the 80s cracks up.
“We don’t say ‘TikTok’ in this RUclips Shorts household!”
I just wrote a paper on social media for grad school. Social media does need a warning label. Period. But more than that, parents should just say no to allowing their young kids on it at all. It’s scary what comes out of extensive YoutTube, Twitch, TikTok, Instagram, etc use. Nothing good, that’s for sure.
But the parents would have to say no and that's something they don't want to do. Or maybe don't know how to do?
It’s their decision
They shouldn't be parents @@Terminator1777
@@Terminator1777Children must always be protected from bad parenting as they are not capable of defending themselves. Children are literally the future of humanity.
I would disagree. RUclips is probably the only reason I’m not more depressed than I am.
It’s also the reason I discovered my passions for space and psychology.
It’s like people seem to forget as they get older what it was like to be a kid… telling teens not to get on social media is only going to ensure that they get on it even more. Bans and warning labels won’t help, what we need to do educate and encourage moderation. Parents could also get on if they want to ruin in for them (like FB). The “I learned it from you!” Like those old D.A.R.E commercials took me out! Have we tried the “this is your brain on social media…” with messed up photos approach? 🤔😂
False PSAs and warnings if done correctly can absolutely reach the youth I remember when I was in highschool everyone thought it was cool/totally no big deal to drink and drive and now because of PSAs you're liable to get bullied for DWI
Cinematic Masterpiece
The throwback, the dramatic music, the 4th wall break to the viewer, who is watching this on social media, this is his Citizen Kane.
This is awesome, Dave!!! What a great video! The reference from the 1980s “Don’t Do Drugs or Alcohol” campaign was epic! 🤣“I learned it by watching you!” 😜
I'm picking up strong "You wouldn't download a social media" vibes from this one, and I'm all for it. Wait, how can I be against social media while I post a comment on it? My ideals are ruined now, darn you!
I genuinely think that people see all these sad kids and think "it must be their phones" is the funniest thing ever.
Naw dawg, older generations let the world burn. They're not sure about the future.
That's just cope lol
I was depressed before social media, it just makes the depression more comforting.
Smokers say the same things about cigarettes
@@Hecklemysheckel I mean it's not wrong..
@Hecklemysheckel you can't be born with a nicotine addiction. You can be born with clinical depression. Also using a website doesn't put tar in your lungs
@@makibee2570 the analogy I’m trying to make is, he says that social media helps his depression, when really it’s most likely making it worse. (This is literally backed up by more than a decade of research and the people who made the apps in the first place).
But also, using social media and smart phones causes several neurological changes in the brain and reward systems, resulting in higher cases of depression, lower attention spans, and trouble with socialization. These symptoms are especially worse when minors are given access to these websites and devices.
Finally, 99% of clinical depression cases are because of outside factors. Do you exercise regularly? Do you eat healthy? Do you get enough sleep? Do you socialize at all? Do you have a goal you are working towards? Again, 99% of times if someone who is depressed does these things they will recover. How about instead of pushing magical feel-good pills to young adults and children we try to solve the underlying issues of society that is causing the rise in depression. You talking about depression as if it’s some sort of unavoidable demon only helps the pharmaceutical industry
@@makibee2570 RUclips deleted my reply to you I won’t bother retyping it all
Just read industrial society and its future and you will understand
lol 😂
He went all telenovela on us at the end.
Wait, no notice board. But he expensed it!!!😂
😂
The left can't meme to save their lives 😂
-Crime
-homelessness
-inflation
The US government,”Those dang smartphones”
As a kid Gen Z, I’m inclined to agree, didn’t get my first phone with data until I was 14, and it’s crazy how addicted everyone else was to it.
With social media literally engineered to keep your attention and keep you wanting to return, it’s not a stretch to say it’s can easily become addicting, *especially* for children who don’t have any mental defenses for stuff like that.
And no matter what it is, addiction is always bad for your mental health.
As a part of the first generation that grew up on social media, my friends and I agree that social media has absolutely wrecked our attention spans and is a form of dopamine addiction. It feels really good to get away from it for a week or so every once in a while, and it really does help your focus and to clear up brain fog.
How exactly are they going to put a warning label on social media? Is it going to be another small “accept cookies” thingy or like the “I’m over 18” adult site overlay? Sounds like such a boomerass solution 😂
Most likely a banner somewhere or when you load the app, but still dumb.
Well adult sites will need you to upload your ID to access them in my state after the 27th. So they'd probably aim for something like that.
Even though that's an awful solution that will certainly lead to a big wave of identity theft.
@@cameronwilsey9334 Oh lord, that sounds like an absolute disaster!
@@cameronwilsey9334 unironically decentralized digital passports could've done amazing things for protecting youth online but it's gonna be years before it can happen again. Same technology that produced NFTs could have been used for something useful if people weren't demented sockwaffles looking to make a buck at every corner.
Yeah, am I gonna open the app and it's gonna have a warning at the bottom half of the screen like the DS?
a truly emotional journey with a perfect ending. Truly a masterpiece of film production
We have warning labels on social media here in the UK. They indicate genuine sources like 'this guy is a certified doctor' or 'this is the Washington post'. It's actually really helpful when it comes to internet doctors, you know who to just scroll past.
It just comes up as a tag on the bottom of RUclips shorts or Instagram etc. and as a warning when you start a RUclips video
They're not concerned about our kids safety. They're worried about them becoming informed
A warning label doesn't change that.
@@gustavju4686not alone, but its all about slowly and incrementally making social media usage seem more and more like a taboo or something to be looked down on. Not every law passed is done so with the intention of seeing change immediately, many are passed just to help normalize certain ideas to the public so future more sever legislation is not met with as much shock and pushback
honestly its true social media gives me so much stimulations no matter what I use that it numbs my senses and makes regulars life dull at times.
shit just hard to quit but it most definitely has made me worse overall by a huge margin
A warning label on social media would be pretty great I think honestly. People need to be more aware of the dangers of it
I'm 13 and you're the only reason I understand politics and other happenings in the US and it helps me engage in more conversations with other people.
Having a warning label should be a bare minimum. You cant force people to stop social media but be aware that social media is built on the structure of keeping you on their site. Counter studies can be pushed out to sew doubts on the negative impact of their products (ie the sugar industry and cigarette companies).
The problem isnt social media, its cap italism. This is literally the problem with cigs, food, eta. Anything that is built to prioritize profit over quality will lead to harm, crazy right?
I would like to remind people that there was significant push back to criticisms of tobacco, sugar and even *lead paint.*
History has repeatedly told us "where there is smoke, there is usually fire."
Oh my gosh... THAT REFERENCE WAS GOLDEN!
Generational Callback. Outstanding!
That callback to that old drug PSA hit me out of right field.
Screw warning labels. They need to make it so parents can really lock them out! My daughter is 10 and special needs. She is able to bypass all any parental locks and get into TikTok and facebook no matter what we use. The ads in games allow her to bypass all parental locks. It's a nightmare. Don't even get me started on the chat features in education video games that can be by passed by a 2 year old.
Incredible performance, truly Oscar-worthy
What a soundtrack 😂😊😮😢
As an avid user of social media, I really tend towards this to be true tbh. Depression has skyrocketed since the smartphone became commonly used, and let's face it, we didn't spend that much time on social media as we did 15 years ago when I was a teen. Ofc 24 hour news is most likely a factor as well, and more, but social media is most definitely the biggest factor.
I think it's plausible that the relation between social media usage and mental health problems is correlational instead of causational. It's quite common to hear that social media causes anxiety and depression, but maybe it's that being outcast from real-life social groups causes anxiety and depression, while also causing social media usage as social outcasts seek social contact online.
Similarly, being in a car causes sitting and is the main cause of car accidents, but it's ridiculous to claim that excessive sitting is the main cause of car accidents.
Kids that spend more time on social media spend more time on social media because they're depressed or have social anxiety
I LOVE the reference! "I learned it from watching you!" Absolutely iconic!
This was so much more dramatic and heart wrenching than it needed to be
this was very emotional to watch
"This is your brain."
"This is your brain on Social Media"
would go hard asf
Its not an issue of social media its an issue of socializing all the bullying would still be happening irl if we didnt have the internet people just feel more comfortable from the anonymity humanity just needs to adapt to this greater ease for communication (so in other words it's mostly a cultural/social/psychological issue with people not being nice enough yet)
I saw that punchline coming a mile away and I still couldn't stop it.😂😂😂
No board, i am calling the irs RIGHT NOW and calling for your audit!!
The 80s reference killed me! 😂
Ten points to anyone who remembers the PSA that this was based on!
"I did my research on Facebook" 😂😂😂 the layers to this one 💯💯💅🏾
Never let your kids find your secret stash of 5G mobile data.
Did he also mention the studies that show that the warning labels don't do anything?
I think awareness around the issue is the point. Not many people see this as a genuine problem despite each new study demonstrating it is something we need to be aware of.
Social media can hurt people, but it can also help you become a better person and be healthier.
I wasn't drinking water at all, and couldn't really motivate myself to do so (I had gatorade) and all it took was someone who didn't drink water because they thought it was harmful saying some outrageous stuff and I started remembering to drink water again.
👍🤘🖖great 1980s PSA throw-back!!!
The look on the dad's face 😂
i’m not a medical researcher, but if i had to guess, social media is a symptom, not a cause.
For a lot of people like myself who are homeschooled and live in a rural area, the internet is the only way to socialize
This is just my opinion as a 22 y/o with limited life experience but I would imagine if parents were more involved with their kids like at all perhaps the kids wouldn’t depend on social media to determine what they should think and how they should feel.
Sounds more like bad parenting should be punished not the kids
10/10 reference didn't even expect it till the end
As much as I agree that social media needs a warning label, parents need to be communicating more with their children. Don't just nag your kids. Talk to them and HEAR what they're saying.
Social media and the internet in general is such a time sink.
Parents should think about limiting screen time and going out doors.
A warning won't do much.
This is beautiful and I loved it!
I’m a zoomer and I support the labels! Social media made me depressed and bulimic in HS.
the reason is also that people are more informed now and get diagnosed
What a beautiful piece of cinema history
Bro the “I learned it from watching you” reference was crazzyyy
Dad shoulda used a bulletin board to convey this message. Or an egg in a fring pan
I loved the melodrama, but am disappointed by the lack of bulletin board content. He expensed that, ya know, he has to use it.
Depends. What social media. Why are you on it. Do you have supervision. How much time do you spend. Does it affect your life in a negative or positive way outside of social media. Bunch of very complicated questions, but overall, yes, something does seem to be corrilated with social media and anxiety. Not necessarily caused but correlated.
You missed a great opportunity to put the starwars no at the end.
I'll be the first to admit that i have an addiction to the internet (mostly due to health issues causing me to spend most of my time sitting around) and I think that there needs to be something done about the influence that social media has on people in general.
That is very accurate, I first started with Facebook because my family was using it then I kept branching due to having lack of structure and being curious.
Just FYI: Pictures on cigarette warning labels increase the likelihood that smokers will quit, but they do not necessarily change belief in the risk of harm.
As if a warning label would help, like literally.
But that end is great. The first time I remember you creating an actual story behind the research. And that end is great. And the music really hits there!
Honestly, if anything was gonna make me go “yeah we don’t need a study for that”, it’s social media being bad for kids mental health.
I actually support the warning label ive seen in my life having grown up with social media 0 evidence that it has done anything but stress out myself my friends and my family its exposed us to adult subjects at young ages we shouldve never been exposed to it by and imo children shouldnt be online period, that the online world is a strictly adult world and that the more we pretend its not the worse the situation will get.
Obamna Vs Soda
people who are depressed spend more time on social media, its not the other way around..
Who wouldnt be depressed if they where on social media that long place can be very depressing.
This isn't gonna stop kids from using social media. It's just gonna make them think it's cooler.
"Social media makes youths anxious and depressed" Gee I wonder why viewing the constant coverage of world changing events might make someone anxious and depressed 🤔🤔🤔
I agree with the dad in this video. They need to ban social media for people who spend an unhealthy amount of time on it.
Some people real excited to get rid of the only safe space for marginalized youth growing up in bigoted areas, a wonderful way for people with ADHD and other disorders to share information about their lived experiences with each other, and a massive platform for organizing activism to hold politicians accountable and expose societal injustices
Right. Its like. Dude, we need an alternative.
It’d definitely help controlling social media especially in a country like the US
omg, did he really go for that ancient joke lol
As a kid who grew up on og RUclips, twitter, and even myspace, yeah I think I have more anxiety than the average person who's not addicted to social media
ngl I understand the concerns for social media because I’m at that point too; overly reliant and depressed over it
I think they should as it is really harming society. the more people are aware that it is bad for you, the more some should make the decision to possibly take breaks for longer times.
i don't need a research paper to see that social media is terrible for your health.
People with anxiety and depression are more likely to spend more time on social media. Social media is not the thing causing it, it's an escape.
Also! A very large number of young people are anxious and depressed, because of plenty of different factors. Young people are also the ones using social media the most.
As someone who’s doom scrolling in greyscale, I kind of agree.
It took us a while to consider nicotine an addictive product. Now it’s taking us a while to figure out that dopamine maxing is addictive.
"Parents, this thing called "The Internet" exists. It lets anyone learn about anything."
Social media absolutely negatively affects people of all ages.
The ASA would demand more research b fore saying it is harmful to jump into a volcano.
This reminds me of the day when my parents came to me with some freshly printed papers with some news they found in the internet, which said that social media and video games cause irreversible damage to the brain. My mom threatened me with the bottle of wine, saying she would become alcoholic if I'll continue using my phone or laptop for fun
Couldn't use anything for half a year
The age difference of these two is so good it makes me believe they really could be father and son
Best use of that old PSA line ever 😂