Social Media and Health and Wellbeing in Young People

Being a Young Person in today’s world can be very difficult, recently a report completed by Young people has proven there might be a good reason to worry.

A survey conducted by the Royal Society for Public Health asked 14-24 year olds in the UK how social media platforms impacted their health and wellbeing. The survey results found that Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram all led to increased feelings of depression, anxiety, poor body image and loneliness.

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