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Social Media Linked to Attention Problems in Children

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Social media is directly destroying kids' ability to focus, with children now spending 2.5 hours daily on platforms that bombard them with constant distractions and notifications. Research tracking over 8,000 children for four years proves that social media specifically causes attention deficits, not TV or video games. This digital assault is fueling the explosion in attention disorders, which jumped by over a million cases in just six years.

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Social media delivers crucial benefits for young people by providing supportive communities, especially for marginalized youth who find identity-affirming content and peer connections unavailable offline. Most teens report feeling more accepted and connected through these platforms, with seven in ten girls of color encountering positive racial content. Brain development research shows varied impacts across individuals, not universal harm.

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