ARE YOUR TEEN KIDS ON INSTAGRAM?

Rick Rock
August 28, 2022

Years of internal research at the company has concluded that Instagram is toxic to the mental well-being of teenagers, especially girls. If your teenage daughter is always on Instagram, you should be concerned. The researchers made clear that the pressure on teen girls to have the “perfect image” on Instagram has proven to hurt
their mental health. Instagram makes body-image issues worse for one in three teen girls who use the platform.

Source: Wall Street Journal newspaper, 9/14/21

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