Casey Comerford0:00 So today I just wanted to talk a little bit about um social media and especially how much it's grown over the past ten years.0:08 Um and I really wanted to talk about like young people using social media.0:12 Um I'm talking under the age of 15 years old.0:15 Um because more and more parents are letting their kids do that.0:18 Um just because it's so normalized.0:20 It's used to communicate, which is a great thing.0:22 I mean, social media has so many benefits, um, and it's it's such a great tool.0:27 However, I do just want to say, talk about some of the dangers of young people using um these platforms, um, such as Instagram, TikTok, all of those kinds of things.0:37 Not only are you exposed to potentially, you know, content you just haven't seen before in your life, especially at those young ages, um, you know, people talking about things that you're not you've never really heard of.0:47 But um it can be very dangerous if if someone gets so hooked into social media at that young of an age to where they kind of base their whole identity around those apps.0:57 Um that's where they get validation for things they do, you know, who they're with.1:01 Um, and that can be a very dangerous line of thinking.1:05 Um and I'm a strong believer that some social media is one of the driving, you know, influences on why you see suicide rates are higher now than they've ever been and mental health and stuff like that, just because it's so much comparison, um, it's so much divide between ideas, which is a good thing, but at young ages being exposed to that can lead you down a very dangerous path.1:27 Um so I do feel like there should be some sort of regulation as to, you know, at what age can you use the social media, or maybe even if you have it, at what age can you be the one to put content out there?1:40 Um, or like what content can you yourself, you know, expose be exposed to.1:46 Um and a hard large part of that is responsibility of the parents, you know, to kind of monitor what their kids are doing, what content they're taking in.1:53 But you know, sometimes when parents aren't as active in their kids' lives and invested in their kids' lives, those kids are the ones who you know take in that media at younger ages and are exposed to some of those dangerous things.
Vansh Patel0:00 Casey, I think you brought up a very valid point on the dangers of exposure to social media of minors currently.0:08 And I think it's become a real issue.0:11 It's become almost an epidemic per se.0:13 I think there's really two sides of it.0:16 I think on one hand, some exposure to social media is beneficial.0:20 I think it's a very efficient form of let's say communication, group involvement.0:27 I think it allows for many kids to feel a self a sense of belonging in a way and just helps them stay on current topics and just things to talk about on what's going on in the world.0:41 And along with that is another side is the dangers of social media.0:47 I think the replacement of social interaction has become very dangerous.0:54 Most people are transitioning to digital conversation rather than face-to-face.1:00 And I think that's gonna pose some severe issues in the nearby future.1:04 I think it already has on the mental health of many children across the US.1:10 And along with that is just overexposure to certain topics on social media.1:17 I remember when I was younger growing up, I I did watch a lot of YouTube, but I primarily watched informational topics, do perfect, a couple entertainment sources that were always family friendly, and I really never had access to anything else.1:34 But nowadays people are getting so comfortable posting on social media that they post their entire lives and don't realize that there are kids on these apps that have access to their content.1:46 And I think just the overexposure of some of these topics is really causing harm to some of these kids, and it's really become detrimental to the health of our kids in in this country.1:59 So I think that's something that needs to change.
Owen Patton0:00 Yeah, Casey, great topic.0:02 I think that um social media with very younger younger kids is gonna present a big problem to society.0:10 Um I think a lot of the things that you said, like these suicide rates and stuff like that, are very concerning, and we need to maybe introduce some sort of regulation to this.0:21 I think that these young kids aren't developed yet, they don't know how to think about um certain things, and there's like you said, there's a lot of comparison between other people, and it can bring kids down, make them feel uh less worthy, or things like that, and really hurt their self-esteem at a young age.0:40 And so what I think we need to do is implement some sort of way that you can verify your age um before you can log on and start using like these social media apps so that we can kind of raise the age uh to a little bit older to where these kids can start on these platforms.0:57 Because I do think social media is a great way for kids to connect and make friends and reach out, branch out, find new friend groups, find people with similar interests.1:07 But at the same time, I think that when these kids are super young and they don't really know how to handle um the these apps, I think that um it can be detrimental to their self-esteem, and I think it can cause a lot more problems than it can cause good at that certain age.1:24 That being said, just raise it a little bit higher, make them verify, and I think that that would uh present a lot of solutions to this problem.
Adi Patel0:00 Hey Casey, I think you make a lot of good points there.0:02 I agree with you on pretty much this whole conversation.0:05 Um I think that a huge driving factor in mental health issues is definitely the increased use of social media within our generation, especially.0:15 And the fact that as kids are getting younger, they're getting more access to social media and things they shouldn't really be seeing at that age.0:24 Um I think that once they get hooked on a social media at a young age, it definitely keeps like messing with their brains, messing with the ability, because kids at that age haven't necessarily gotten all the uh the things that they need.0:37 Um they haven't matured yet, and so the things that they feed their brain with, um, it grows as they get older and then drives the mental health issues we have today.0:48 Um it's a I have a great example.0:50 I've got family members who are in their young, their kids, they're around 10, 12 years old, even younger maybe, and they get hooked on to like YouTube, TikTok, and things like that.1:01 And then as an adult, as a parent, when you take these things away from them, they completely change the attitude.1:08 They're they feel like they've been they've gotten something taken away from them.1:11 And it just kind of shows how kids at a young age today have grown up completely differently than kids in generations past have.1:19 Like we grew up mainly going outside, playing with playing uh outside in the yard and things like that.1:26 And kids nowadays are hooked inside on their iPads, on their phones, just scrolling on social media and watching all that.1:33 And it's kinda we're gonna see it coming up in the future how these kids, how they were raised on technology, how they grow differently, how they act differently in this upcoming generation.1:42 I think that since we have allowed the younger kids to have access to all this, it's gonna be a complete generation and culture change.1:51 And um I I think it's gonna play a huge role on the future generation of how they're gonna grow up and how they're gonna live their life.1:59 Um Yeah.2:02 I think you had a I think I got you had a great topic here and I agree with a lot of your points.