The Impact of Social Media on Children, Adolescents, and Families vía RIMA

Entre los emails, dossiers y redes sociales especializadas para médicos, encontré este resumen sobre el Impacto del Social Media en los niños, adolescentes y las familias... Se lo están tomando en serio! Y eso es muy bueno...

Fue publicado en la Red Informática de Medicina Avanzada (RIMA)

Resumen:

Using social media Web sites is among the most common activity of today's children and adolescents. Any
Web site that allows social interaction is considered a social media site, including social networking sites such
as Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter; gaming sites and virtual worlds such as Club Penguin, Second Life, and
the Sims; video sites such as YouTube; and blogs. Such sites offer today's youth a portal for entertainment
and communication and have grown exponentially in recent years. For this reason, it is important that parents
become aware of the nature of social media sites, given that not all of them are healthy environments for
children and adolescents. Pediatricians are in a unique position to help families understand these sites and
to encourage healthy use and urge parents to monitor for potential problems with cyberbullying, "Facebook
depression," sexting, and exposure to inappropriate content.

Gwenn Schurgin O'Keeffe, Kathleen Clarke-Pearson, and Council on Communications and Media

Vol. 127 Nro. 4 Página: 800 - 804 Fecha de publicación: 01/04/2011