Just an hour a day on social media can affect kids' happiness

Wherever you go, you can see that teenagers and teenagers are checking social media information on their mobile phones. But behind a smile self-taken, teenagers may not be satisfied with what they see on their daily digital stream. According to a new study by the IZA Labor Economics Institute, if you spend only one hour a day on social media, they may be dissatisfied with their lives.

The authors behind the report looked at data on children and adolescents between the UK 's 10 and 15 years from 2010 to 2014. These young people participated in a longitudinal study of British families including representative samples of more than 40,000 families in the UK.

Researchers want to know more about the influence of social media on every aspect of daily life of this generation, from the school to the relationship with the family and friends.

"Our findings suggest that spending more time on social networks reduces child satisfaction in every aspect of life, with the exception of their friendship," adding that "girls deny The effect is greater than that boy. "

According to this study, the probability of a child of this age group "being completely satisfied with the overall life" probably decreased by about 14% with 1 hour of social media use - "This is not a trivial effect" .

This is not the first study to carefully examine how social media use in modern life affects children and adolescents. In 2011, the American pediatric academy warned parents that a new phenomenon "facebook depression" appeared at puberty.

Likewise, in the 2013 survey by the University of Michigan, we found that more young people use Facebook, they become more unhappy.

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I am aware of the shortcomings of our research. The data does not accurately describe how these children act when logging on to social networks. There are various problems with how to use social media, whether good or bad, so this is problematic.

"For example, online chat is related to the growing general interest of others and the use of photographic media" - The authors wrote as such a uniquely self-portrait - "related to narcissism and social comparisons" as a conclusion .

What can I do? While recognizing that social media is a "very important phenomenon" and "core" in the life of young people today, researchers believe that limiting the use of children's social media is a I believe it will help improve general well-being.

Chicago secretary general, Chicago based chief, Chicago - Luke Trayser, the father of two young boys, applauded social media and made children relatively pleased for today 's eight hours. And it is alive altogether. "A lot of people told me that we could not do this," he said. "But that's what the superstar is doing - we feel pressure." I can not believe that this wonderful father's meeting was held without using Apple products. "I never broke the iPad never," said Tracer in a champagne press conference. "I called the key timeout before dinner to make my own strategy and then I will continue to play the television so that my old man can see Mighty Machines while eating dinner."

In 2015, Common Sense Media reports, teenagers spend an average of 9 hours of social media per day. In addition, we found that adolescence between the ages of 8 and 12 is an average of 6 hours a day. According to a new report of Common Sense Media two years later, children's digital media usage time for children under 8 years increased from 15 minutes a day in 2013 to 48 minutes a day in 2017. It is difficult to understand how children have sufficient time to consume this digital media during the day, such as school, extracurricular activities, family time, sleeping.

I think that social media will be number one on the time usage list. So you can assume that not only Facebook but also students spend an average of 1 hour a day on social media on social media. Let's suppose that you get your mobile phone when you are fourteen and concentrate on social media. On your 21st birthday, you will spend 107 days alone in social media or 2,568 hours in my opinion. Then I went to a restaurant and observed that at least 40% of the people were waiting for their food on their mobile phones even though they went out to eat with other people. People frequently use their phones, but have they even noticed?