Yasmina Kattou
7:24 am, September 23, 2022
If social networks are used by everyone, children and adolescents are particularly more exposed to the harmful effects of the latter. In full construction, exposure to screens and social networks can have serious consequences on their mental health, professionals warn.
Almost 4h50 a day. This is the average time that 15-17 year olds spend in front of a screen, often on social networks. However, for ages 5 to 17, it is recommended that you spend less than 1.5 hours on your computer or laptop. Seeing the lives of others on Facebook, Instagram or TikTok scroll by can have serious consequences for the mental health of young people, professionals warn.
“They are children who, if their reputation is destroyed or damaged on social networks, will be extremely depressed. There is also the body image. In fact, because this tendency towards idealization, homogenization, can do damage even in old age. to which they are sensitive “, explains Servane Mouton, a neurologist, to the microphone of Europa 1.
Also pay attention to the sedentary lifestyle
To connect to different networks, we often sit or lie down. In the long term, a sedentary lifestyle has direct effects: “A sedentary lifestyle will promote the onset of heart attacks and screens are now the leading cause of sleep disturbances. Blue light provides the brain with information that in fact it is daytime. And it will move the time of falling asleep “, emphasizes the neurologist.
To avoid effects on sleep, Servane Mouton recommends replacing the phone with a book, at least 1 hour before going to bed.
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