We need to talk about teens, social media and mental health
They all coincide with what may be the most rapid uptake in a new technology in human history. *coincide with ~와 동시에 일어나다, 일치하다 *uptake 활용, 흡수 I mean, to me, sometimes it feels like people have their phones, like, attached to their hands. You feel naked without it. Social media was just, like, a nuclear bomb on teen social life. *correlation 상관관계 *causation 인과관계 *murky (연기·안개 등으로 불쾌하게) 어두컴컴한[흐린], 불투명한 They've been noisy and murky, inconclusive and confusing. *rollout 첫 공개, 전시 *stagger (진행되는 일에) 시차를 두다 So the rollout was staggered. having a staggered rollout like this is experimental gold *experimental gold 실험적인(도전적인) 시도(성과) *uptick 증가 The researchers can detect this uptick in mental health issues. This was a bare-bones version of social media. The higher usage, so the more hours kids spend on it, the higher their risk is for depression, anxiety and other mental health problems.
This week, the American Psychological Association issued its first-of-kind guidelines for parents to increase protection for teens online. It comes at a time of rising rates of depression and anxiety among teens.
This episode, NPR science correspondent Michaeleen Doucleff looks into the data on how that change has impacted the mental health of teenagers. In her reporting, she found that the seismic shift of smartphones and social media has re-defined how teens socialize, communicate and even sleep.
In 2009, about half of teens said they were using social media daily, reported psychologist Jean Twenge. And last year, 95% of teens said they used some social media, and about a third said they use it constantly.