2024-10-07
17 分钟Teenagers are obsessed with their smartphones.
It's pretty much like my best friend, I use it every single day.
And across the globe there are growing calls to restrict smartphones and social media for kids or ban them altogether.
You could have the nicest video one minute and then it's just someone dying.
But what happens when teen smartphones are taken away from them?
And what is social media really doing to kids?
It's like radicalizing your friends and things like that.
Like, it changes the whole perspective on things.
Welcome to BBC Trending.
I'm Mariana Spring and in this episode I'm investigating the impact of social media on teenagers.
I always have to have it next to me because, like, I won't get scared that I'm being like left out or something.
That's Josh, a 14 year old from Birmingham.
Josh says he can be on his phone for up to 10 hours a day.
On the weekend.
My phone will be like constantly going off, which will wake me up and then I'll have to check it just to see if I'm not like missing anything important.
And normally at 4 in the morning it's not that important.
And 14 year old Kia, who also lives not too far from Josh, is rarely off her phone either.
She got a smartphone when she was 7.
Sometimes I stay up all night, maybe until about like 5am watching TikTok or playing games or watching Netflix or anything like that.
And yeah, I just scroll and scroll and scroll.