Social Media is Addictive and Influences Behavior: Should it Be Regulated as a Digital Therapeutic?

Recently, we were deeply saddened by the findings of the coroner investigating the death of 14-year-old Molly Russell. Deeply saddened and angry but not surprised. This case should be seen as a sentinel event, given that this is the first time social media was directly implicated as a cause of death...

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Autores principales: Perakslis, Eric, Quintana, Yuri
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: JMIR Publications 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9912146/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36701180
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/43174
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description Recently, we were deeply saddened by the findings of the coroner investigating the death of 14-year-old Molly Russell. Deeply saddened and angry but not surprised. This case should be seen as a sentinel event, given that this is the first time social media was directly implicated as a cause of death. We should use this opportunity to advance proposals for the regulations of the health effects of social media.
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spelling pubmed-99121462023-02-11 Social Media is Addictive and Influences Behavior: Should it Be Regulated as a Digital Therapeutic? Perakslis, Eric Quintana, Yuri J Med Internet Res Viewpoint Recently, we were deeply saddened by the findings of the coroner investigating the death of 14-year-old Molly Russell. Deeply saddened and angry but not surprised. This case should be seen as a sentinel event, given that this is the first time social media was directly implicated as a cause of death. We should use this opportunity to advance proposals for the regulations of the health effects of social media. JMIR Publications 2023-01-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9912146/ /pubmed/36701180 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/43174 Text en ©Eric Perakslis, Yuri Quintana. Originally published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (https://www.jmir.org), 26.01.2023. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on https://www.jmir.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.
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