A team of experts have warned that teenagers who have become obsessed with Facebook, a social networking sight can suffer from Facebook depression. According to the American Academy of Pediaticians, being ignored on a social networking website may be more damaging than if a kid is overlooked by their fiends in real life.
The online pestering could cause unfathomable psycho-social upshots counting suicide. According AAP lead author and pediatrician, Dr Gwenn O’Keeffe in Boston, social media had the authority to obstruct with sleep, homework and physical activity among teenagers. Parents should comprehend these technologies so they can narrate to their children about online world.
The youngsters should be monitored while using Facebook, stated the AAP guidelines. In the recent case of teenage suicide, fifteen years old was found dead at his home in Bourneville, Birmingham, after being threatened on Facebook with being attacked at school.
The social networking website gives a tilted view as the users these sites cannot see body language or facial expressions which give context for messages posted on the site, stated Dr O’Keeffe. Studies to find out the effects of using Facebook have been full of loopholes, with some experts signifying it is good for your self-respect.
Using Facebook can improve social associations among some adolescents, while having the opposite effect on those prone to depression. Parents should not think that the site is going to someway infect their kids with depression, explained Dr Megan Moreno, an adolescent medicine specialist from University of Wisconsin and she has studied online social networking among college students.