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Hannah Xiao Grade 6

Jesse Lebold Grade 6

Kanon Kijima Grade 6

Most people use social media apps like instagram where influencers use photoshop to make themselves look perfect . People who see those pictures think they ’ re real and start feeling insecure about their own bodies . This problem usually happens to girls . These girls will then think they ’ re ugly and think bad thoughts , which could eventually lead to suicide .

Most kids have a scheduled bedtime at 9:00-9:30pm . Some kids bring their phones to bed and look at social media like YouTube , sometimes until 4:00am . A lack of sleep causes a lack of focus in school , and that causes stress , bad grades , and psychological problems for many kids .

Social media motivates kids in my generation , so don ’ t limit my access to it .

Seeing something you really like can give you the motivation to work hard to achieve it . When kids feel sad , they look to influencers online so that they could feel better . Social media gives us hope .

Social media and influencers have a way of reaching us in ways that parents can ’ t . Some kids are too shy and nervous to share their true feelings in person with their peers or parents , so social media gives kids like that a chance to express themselves in safe and comfortable ways .

Giving screen time limits to teens is not good even though social media addiction leads to mental health problems .

Many people , including myself , are motivated by people on social media , so cutting access is would cause us undue stress . It would take away happiness in our daily lives , and maybe we would be addicted to our devices more in other ways .

People need entertainment when they are stressed , and phones are our main source of fast and easy joy these days . Think about it this way , parents : would you rather have us playing outside in traffic rather than being on our phones indoors ?

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Many kids are addicted to the dopamine hits they get from social media , so it ’ s time we start enforcing social media limits to get our kids back .

Some kids may have problems controlling their social media screen time , but the rest of us are growing up with social media responsibly .