Over the past decade, we’ve watched our computers, tablets and phones dominate our lives. The growing relevance of these devices in our lives has become bittersweet; we are now able to move through our days much easier and with greater efficiently. However, such reliance on technology and, in particular, social media runs the risk of other mental (and sometimes physical) dilemmas.
Of course, websites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr help people reconnect with old friends and even meet new ones; but these sites can also stunt us in many ways.
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The Dangers of Social Media
Vanity Fair contributor and author Nancy Jo Sales sat down for a segment of One-on-One with Steve Adubato to talk about her new book, American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers, which illustrates the dangers and challenges social media has created for our nation’s youth.
While creating her book, Sales interviewed more than 200 girls, ages 13 to 19, across ten states and found incredible and powerful information that our society has been overlooking.
“Girls use social media more than boys do,” Sales tells Adubato. “And they seem to be more the targets of abuses of social media, like sexual harassment, like cyber-bullying.”
Sales continues: “Based on the reporting that I have done and talking to many experts in the field of education and child psychology and so forth, I think it’s pretty clear that there’s a lot about social media that is really hurtful and challenging, especially to girls—but both girls and boys.”
To learn more about Sales, her book, and the dangers social media has produced for the children of our nation, check out this segment of One-on-One with Steve Adubato
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