want privacy act and the kids act and i want to privacy act and the kids act and i want to thank all of the researchers, the young people, the parents. researchers, the young people, the parents, the surgeon general of the united parents, the surgeon general of the united states, who have explained the correlation between social media usage the correlation between social media usage and the correlation between social media usage and body dissatisfaction, disordered eating habits, anxiety, depression, self injury, suicide ideation depression, self injury, suicide ideation and cyber bullying. heck, frances ideation and cyber bullying. heck, frances haugen, the facebook whistle blower, was right here and testified whistle blower, was right here and testified to us that facebook and instagram conducted research on this topic. instagram conducted research on this topic. they instagram conducted research on this topic, they knew and understood the harms. topic, they knew
see they fall prey to online predators lower them and attack them. the could give a pitch of the men that ultimately could lead to drug use, human trafficking into sexual violence. would you limit social media i didn t maybe i should have what age are we talking about? that s a good question the law says age of 13. i think it might be too young especially when we see a rise i teenage suicide ideation. suicide attempts. increase in er visits when it comes to young teenage girls an depression and anxiety. i think the most important thin is education. we also need to have a strong support support and parental involvement. pianist parents monitoring and supervising watching what the kids are doing. watching who they re talking to online and social media. look for changes it. it looks to see how they stoppe engaging in the normal daily activities at? and sports hanging out with their friends have their grades dropped to? are the eating well or sleeping
you when they come out of that room of what they re feeling and what how it s changing their lives? i witnessed chains being broken of things allison mentioned, anxiety, depression, suicide ideation. one thing i ll never forget is seeing my friends and other college students kneeling and praying before the altar, arms wrapped around each other. they re coming out of it with hope in their eye, unlike anything i ve seen to this extent, to this scale and it s so amazing and just i m still in awe. we re here like on the tenth or 11th day and god is still moving through these people and through us and it s just been amazing to see. like it s just uniting like our generation but then also the other generations to us too when there has been that divide and so it s just amazing to see the god of unity just completely shine right now. it s funny that you say that people are shocked to see our