“Social media was like a nuclear bomb on teen social life,” said data scientist Chris Said, as several studies show links between teens' use of social media over the last decade and a variety of social ills.
in her doctoral thesis. After that, they raised concerns about comic books, television and eventually video games. Thus, many researchers worried that social media may simply be the newest scapegoat for children’s mental health issues.
Luckily, his team could track mental health at the time because college administrators were also conducting a national survey that asked students an array of questions about their mental health, including diagnoses, therapies, and medications for depression, anxiety and eating disorders. “These are not just people’s feelings,” Makarin says. “These are actual conditions that people have to report.”
And the effect isn’t small, he says. Across the population, the rollout of Facebook caused about 2% of college students to become clinically depressed. That may sound modest, but with more than 17 million college students in the U.S. at the time, that means Facebook caused more than 300,000 young adults to suffer from depression.
Of course, the study has limitations, Gentzkow says. First off, it’s Facebook, which teens are using less and less. And the version of Facebook is barebones. In 2006, the platform didn’t have a “like” button” or a “newsfeed.” This older version probably wasn’t as “potent” as social media now, says data scientist Chris Said. Furthermore, students used the platform only on a computer because smartphones weren’t available yet.
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