Contoh 4: Social media is hurting kids. Why hasn’t government stepped in?
Thesis: Social media have so many alarming effect to the mental health of young users, who reported feeling addicted to scrolling images on the app even though it made them feel bad about themselves or, in some cases, promoted eating disorders and self-harm.
But it pursued engaging teenagers as key to growing its profits.
Arguments: Serious mental health problems among high school students skyrocketed during the same decade that teens’ use of cellphones and social media became pervasive.
From 2009 to 2019, the portion of high schoolers reporting “persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness” increased by 40%, to more than 1 in 3 students, according to the U.S. surgeon general’s advisory last year on the national crisis in youth mental health. During the same decade, the number considering suicide shot up 36% — to about 1 in 5 high schoolers.
The effect of technology “almost certainly varies from person to person,” the surgeon general’s report says, citing research that shows both negative and positive consequences of teens’ social media use.
While some research shows time spent online leads to depression and anxiety, other research shows it helps people form meaningful connections with friends and family.
More recent research has shown that social media platforms, including Instagram and Snapchat, have made it easy for teenagers to find and buy deadly drugs, such as pills laced with fentanyl.
Recommendation: Government should keep the pressure on to make protection of children and teenager from the danger of social media.
Government and relevant authorities should establish the law against the bad impact of social media.
Sumber: LA Times
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