'It's not a fair fight.' A new movement launches to help parents and kids with cyber addiction and bullying

Voices For Suicide Prevention · Aug 17, 2023 · 20m

Christine Vineis builds big things. She's done it her whole career and now she's taking on cyber addiction with her grassroots movement, Families Against Social Media Addiction. As she simply and powerfully says, 'it's not a fair fight'; from algorithms that keep us all engaged to the U.S. Surgeon General with his recent warning that there isn't enough data to even say if social media is safe for young, growing minds. Evidence is mounting that social media is a driving factor in the mental health of young people and negative experiences online are leading to increased self-harm and suicide…