Social media can cause sleep loss if you’re constantly checking your phone. It slows down the brain from developing if continuously going onto your phone.
Social media affects children in many different ways. There can be anonymous profiles on social media that influences children’s behaviour, and their mindset. Social media can drastically change the way the portray their life, or even themselves based off of what they see on social media when looked at. Children may see inappropriate things on social media that could possibly leave a permanent memory in their minds, which are still developing. If children continue to glance at social media, it can not only influence them in a negative way, but the people they interact with as well. For example, let’s take the ‘Internet Momo Haux’ that happened in 2018-2019. Children were shown at random times on social media to harm themselves. If that child went to school the next day they saw that, or hung out with their friends, it can affect other children horribly, which passes on from one kid to another.
1. The constant notifications cause children to lose focus and pressure them to check constantly.
2. Social media might pressure a child to constantly look through others' posts. By seeing how successful or admirable specific posts are, they might stress due to envy, causing distress that prevents them from feeling relaxed enough to sleep.
3. They might feel the need to post regularly, and the planning for these posts and the posts themselves can take up space in a child's mind and life. They might think that being active on social media is more important than their health, and neglect their sleep.
