"Facebook is Shit" - Gunter Grass, Nobel Prize Winner
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The YoungMinds campaigns director, Lucie Russell, said: "Every day we
hear about the unprecedented toxic climate children and young people
face in a 24/7 online culture where they can never switch off."
Teens are so emotionally invested in social media that a fifth will wake up at night and log on.
"Mental health is the biggest unaddressed health challenge of our
age, and young people's mental health must be a top priority for
Britain."
Girls are likely to experience stress more
frequently than boys, and more often than the average adult, with girls
feeling stressed an average of twice a week.
June Eric Udorie writes in the Guardian:
"It’s becoming more and more obvious how the pressures of social media
disproportionately affect
teenage girls. I can see it all around me.
Pressure to be perfect. To look perfect, act perfect, have the perfect
body, have the perfect group of friends, the perfect amount of likes on
Instagram. Perfect, perfect, perfect. And if you don’t meet these
ridiculously high standards, then the self-loathing and bullying begins.
What is really worrying is that time and time again, these studies
pop up and demonstrate that the mental health of teenagers, especially
teenage girls, is on the line. We know this. We need the State to act".
*http://channel.louisiana.dk/video/g%C3%BCnter-grass-facebook-shit