Rendering Pediatric Care Clinical Report—The …
Clinical Report The Impact of social media onChildren, Adolescents, and FamiliesabstractUsing social media Web sites is among the most common activity oftoday s children and adolescents. Any Web site that allows social inter-action is considered a social media site, including social networkingsites such as Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter; gaming sites and virtualworlds such as Club Penguin, Second Life, and the Sims; video sitessuch as YouTube; and blogs. Such sites offer today s youth a portal forentertainment and communication and have grown exponentially inrecent years. For this reason, it is important that parents becomeaware of the nature of social media sites, given that not all of them arehealthy environments for children and adolescents. Pediatricians arein a unique position to help families understand these sites and toencourage healthy use and urge parents to monitor for potential prob-lems with cyberbullying, Facebook depression, sexting, and exposureto inappropriate ;127:800 804SOCIAL media USE BY TWEENS AND TEENSEngaging in various forms of social media is a routine activity thatresearch has shown to benefit children and adolescents by enhancingcommunication, social connection, and even technical sites such as Facebook and MySpace offer multiple daily oppor-tunities for connecting with friends, classmates, and people withshared interests.
Clinical Report—The Impact of Social Media on Children, Adolescents, and Families abstract Using social media Web sites is among the most common activity of
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