The Surgeon General recently released a mental health advisory regarding social media. One website reviewed the advisory, entitled "Is Social Media Driving Young People Crazy?"
Knowing how to respond as a Christian to such an advisory is difficult because so many competing factors are involved. There is no doubt that social media is causing a mental health crisis—which is just another way of saying a spiritual crisis. It is not just a problem for young people but for people of all ages. At first, I wondered if the advisory would be a pretext for more censorship, but its recommendations focused on limiting social media access for children and had recommendations for governmental policy-makers, tech companies, families, and young people themselves.
Anyone who works with young people on any level knows that this generation's young people are a mess. There are some kids who are doing well, but they are the children whose parents worked hard to provide a healthy spiritual environment during the COVID crisis and guarded their children against the rise of social media domination. Those who regularly consume social media, and that is most of them, are in crisis. …
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