{"id":5902,"date":"2025-04-28T13:47:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T05:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/?p=5902"},"modified":"2025-04-28T13:47:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T05:47:55","slug":"from-tool-to-plague-how-shifts-in-social-media-have-directly-affected-adolescent-well-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/5902\/from-tool-to-plague-how-shifts-in-social-media-have-directly-affected-adolescent-well-being\/","title":{"rendered":"From Tool to Plague: How shifts in social media have directly affected adolescent well-being."},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\"Up to 95% of youth ages 13\u201317 report using a social media platform, with more than a third saying they use social media \u201calmost constantly.\" (Office of the Surgeon General, 2023, p. 4).\n\n\n\nIn its infancy, social media emerged as a revolutionary tool, designed to connect individuals, amplify voices, and foster creativity across global communities. Today, however, it has evolved into a troubling societal force - marked by addictive design, artificial content moderation, and a profit-driven <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/5902\/from-tool-to-plague-how-shifts-in-social-media-have-directly-affected-adolescent-well-being\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Up to 95% of youth ages 13\u201317 report using a social media platform, with more than a third saying they use social media \u201calmost constantly.&#8221; (Office of the Surgeon General, 2023, p. 4). In its infancy, social media emerged as a revolutionary tool, designed to connect individuals, amplify voices, and foster creativity across global communities. Today, however, it has evolved into a troubling societal force &#8211; marked by addictive design, artificial content moderation, and a profit-driven &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":611,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csm"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/611"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5906,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5902\/revisions\/5906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}