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 Study: Social networking increases risk of teens smoking, drinking and using drugs 
#14975139 - 08/25/11 09:10 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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Study: Social networking increases risk of teens smoking, drinking and using drugs
August 24, 2011 - Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Time spent social networking increases the risk of teens smoking, drinking and using drugs, according to a national survey of American attitudes on substance abuse released on Wednesday.
On a typical day, 70 percent of teens ages 12 to 17 -- 17 million teenagers -- spend from a minute to hours on Facebook, Myspace and other social networking sites, according to The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University.
But for this same age bracket, social-network-savvy teens are five times more likely to use tobacco; three times more likely to use alcohol; and twice as likely to use marijuana than teens who do not spend any of their day on social networking sites.
"The results are profoundly troubling ... the anything goes, free-for-all world of Internet expression, suggestive television programing and what-the-hell attitudes put teens at sharply increased risk of substance abuse," CASA Founder and Chairman Joseph Califano Jr said in a statement.
Knowledge Networks surveyed 1,037 teens ages 12 to 17 and 528 parents of these teens over the Internet. QEV Analytics, Ltd. conducted the annual telephone survey of 1,006 teens 12 to 17, asking questions CASA has used to track trends.
Results revealed that half of teens who spend any time social networking in a given day have seen pictures of kids "drunk, passed out, or using drugs on these sites."
But even beyond the daily teen social networkers, 14 percent of teens who reported spending no time on such sites in a given day said they have seen pictures of drunk, passed out, or drug-using kids on the sites.
Teens who had seen such pictures were four times likelier to be able to get marijuana, three times likelier to be able to get prescription drugs without a prescription, and twice as likely to be able to get alcohol in a day at most.
Teens who had seen such pictures were also more than twice as likely to think they would try drugs in the future, and much more likely to have friends who used illegal drugs.
"Especially troubling-- and alarming-- are that almost half of the teens who have seen pictures ... first saw such pictures when they were 13 years of age or younger," the report said. "These facts alone should strike Facebook fear into the hearts of parents of young children."
But the surveys, which also questioned adults, found that nine of 10 parents do not think teens spending time social networking are any more likely to drink or use drugs.
Only 64 percent of parents said they monitor their child's social networking page.
The authors of the report called for parents -- still the greatest influence on a teen's decision whether to smoke, drink, or use drugs -- to present a consistent and unified front against substance abuse.
"In the cultural seas into which we toss our teens, parents are essential to preventing their substance abuse."
The report also urged operators of social networking sites to curb such images and deny use to adolescents who post them.
"Continuing to provide the electronic vehicle for transmitting such images constitutes electronic child abuse," it said.
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Re: Study: Social networking increases risk of teens smoking, drinking and using drugs [Re: veggie]
#14975148 - 08/25/11 09:13 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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Why arent they all jumping off bridges.
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TTT
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Re: Study: Social networking increases risk of teens smoking, drinking and using drugs [Re: downlowfunk]
#14975192 - 08/25/11 09:39 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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This sounds like a correlation not causation.
Solution: Censor the internet! 
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Re: Study: Social networking increases risk of teens smoking, drinking and using drugs [Re: TTT]
#14975255 - 08/25/11 10:06 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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Re: Study: Social networking increases risk of teens smoking, drinking and using drugs [Re: limestoneman]
#14975512 - 08/25/11 11:32 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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Well duh!
It's the same thing as some silly home-schooled kid who never saw the light of day - he is less likely to use drugs too because he isn't part of the cultural scene! Same thing with the internet - they're just figuring this out?
Give it a rest!
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Re: Study: Social networking increases risk of teens smoking, drinking and using drugs [Re: emeraldlife88]
#14975531 - 08/25/11 11:39 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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FACEBOOK IS DEADLY AND IT'S KILLING OUR CHILDREN! IT MUST BE BANNED!
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Re: Study: Social networking increases risk of teens smoking, drinking and using drugs [Re: emeraldlife88]
#14975588 - 08/25/11 11:54 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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emeraldlife88 said:
Well duh!
It's the same thing as some silly home-schooled kid who never saw the light of day - he is less likely to use drugs too because he isn't part of the cultural scene! Same thing with the internet - they're just figuring this out?
Give it a rest!
No, we must abolish ignorance by wasting money doing studies on things that are completely obvious instead of focusing on how to actually improve society.
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Re: Study: Social networking increases risk of teens smoking, drinking and using drugs [Re: Pacmanpth]
#14975716 - 08/25/11 12:29 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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Or, those who cannot afford regular access to a computer also can't afford intoxicants.
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Re: Study: Social networking increases risk of teens smoking, drinking and using drugs [Re: shamrogorr]
#14975727 - 08/25/11 12:35 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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Lets start setting some more precedents on restricting information, and inject probes into our kids to moniter everything they think just incase they are thinking something the propaganda tells us is bad. Perhaps we can just lobotimize them so that they can more easily stay out of trouble. Actually how about we just do it to everybody just incase, so that they can't corrupt our children with thoughts.
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Re: Study: Social networking increases risk of teens smoking, drinking and using drugs [Re: emeraldlife88]
#14975807 - 08/25/11 12:52 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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Mental fascists never assume that you can be aware of the existence of contraband, that you can even immerse yourself in a counterculture, and still be able to refuse what they offer you.
Some people take no care for tomorrow. They do jump off their bridges. I suggest that these people can never be saved from themselves, any more than those who practice informed consent.
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Re: Study: Social networking increases risk of teens smoking, drinking and using drugs [Re: durian_2008] 1
#14976252 - 08/25/11 02:19 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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The report also urged operators of social networking sites to curb such images and deny use to adolescents who post them.
"Continuing to provide the electronic vehicle for transmitting such images constitutes electronic child abuse," it said.
Cry me a river. So now the mere perception of another person drinking will make kids drink?
The study did basically nothing to show that the act of using social networking itself causes more drug use. Like with everything else, it could be that kids who are sly enough to have access to drugs are in that position because they are sociable, the same quality that makes them more likely to use social networking services regularly.
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Re: Study: Social networking increases risk of teens smoking, drinking and using drugs [Re: 5-HT2A]
#14976274 - 08/25/11 02:25 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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Oh noes! we must protect the childruns!
We must isolate them from any and all bits of reality we see unfit! God forbid they learn the truth about things we dare not let them see! Our conception of reality is the only reality! We cannot let them create their own!
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Re: Study: Social networking increases risk of teens smoking, drinking and using drugs [Re: 5-HT2A]
#14976297 - 08/25/11 02:30 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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"Continuing to provide the electronic vehicle for transmitting such images constitutes electronic child abuse
Oh yes, electronic child abuse........ Well how about forcing children to see all the lies and deceptions regarding Marijuanna and other drugs, how bout that one eh? That certainly is child abuse as well because they, the propaganda makers, are lieing and deceiving the fragile minds of young people into believing in their warped ideals.
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Re: Study: Social networking increases risk of teens smoking, drinking and using drugs [Re: veggie]
#14977161 - 08/25/11 05:08 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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"The results are profoundly troubling ... the anything goes, free-for-all world of Internet expression, suggestive television programing and what-the-hell attitudes put teens at sharply increased risk of substance abuse," CASA Founder and Chairman Joseph Califano Jr said in a statement.
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Results revealed that half of teens who spend any time social networking in a given day have seen pictures of kids "drunk, passed out, or using drugs on these sites."
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Teens who had seen such pictures were also more than twice as likely to think they would try drugs in the future, and much more likely to have friends who used illegal drugs.
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Re: Study: Social networking increases risk of teens smoking, drinking and using drugs [Re: emeraldlife88]
#14977296 - 08/25/11 05:34 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
emeraldlife88 said:
Well duh!
It's the same thing as some silly home-schooled kid who never saw the light of day - he is less likely to use drugs too because he isn't part of the cultural scene! Same thing with the internet - they're just figuring this out?
Give it a rest!
My buddy was home schooled and he still smoked and partied hard with all the other kids in the neighborhood.
Being home schooled doesn't mean you can't have friends.
But anyway, this study is garbage.
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Re: Study: Social networking increases risk of teens smoking, drinking and using drugs [Re: Subconscious]
#14979076 - 08/25/11 11:25 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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One day, perhaps, a few people will contemplate the idea that.... maybe.... teens doing drugs isn't the end of the world.
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Re: Study: Social networking increases risk of teens smoking, drinking and using drugs [Re: Society]
#14979327 - 08/26/11 12:10 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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Hm, maybe the teens that aren't on social networking sites just don't have any social life hm?
Or at least nowhere to get drugs from :p
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Re: Study: Social networking increases risk of teens smoking, drinking and using drugs [Re: Magick]
#14980268 - 08/26/11 04:21 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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when i was a kid at that age we were thinking about what we would go to college for or when we're going to get maried.
not about drugs, wtf is dat shit?
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Re: Study: Social networking increases risk of teens smoking, drinking and using drugs [Re: aiyobro]
#14980463 - 08/26/11 06:13 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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Now if only Facebook could just grow my mushies for me...
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Re: Study: Social networking increases risk of teens smoking, drinking and using drugs [Re: TTT]
#14981102 - 08/26/11 11:38 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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TTT said:
This sounds like a correlation not causation.
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Re: Study: Social networking increases risk of teens smoking, drinking and using drugs [Re: Subconscious]
#14981263 - 08/26/11 12:19 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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Quote:
emeraldlife88 said:
Well duh!
It's the same thing as some silly home-schooled kid who never saw the light of day - he is less likely to use drugs too because he isn't part of the cultural scene! Same thing with the internet - they're just figuring this out?
Give it a rest!
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Subconscious said:
My buddy was home schooled and he still smoked and partied hard with all the other kids in the neighborhood.
Being home schooled doesn't mean you can't have friends.
But anyway, this study is garbage.
In church schools, there was a saying about the pastor's daughter.
And, have you ever seen video clips from the most repressive cultures?
As soon as people find the smallest opportunity to let loose, the less of an outlet they have, the kookier it gets.
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Re: Study: Social networking increases risk of teens smoking, drinking and using drugs [Re: durian_2008]
#14981369 - 08/26/11 12:50 PM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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Re: Study: Social networking increases risk of teens smoking, drinking and using drugs [Re: 5-HT2A] 1
#14985822 - 08/27/11 11:20 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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Study: Having friends increases risk of teens smoking, drinking and using drugs.
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Re: Study: Social networking increases risk of teens smoking, drinking and using drugs [Re: Canberra]
#14989140 - 08/28/11 12:14 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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Canberra said:
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TTT said:
This sounds like a correlation not causation.
Jesus told me this I know, Cuz the Bible told me so...
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Re: Study: Social networking increases risk of teens smoking, drinking and using drugs [Re: blujay]
#14989143 - 08/28/11 12:14 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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Getting that wrong felt really, really good.
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Re: Study: Social networking increases risk of teens smoking, drinking and using drugs [Re: blujay]
#14994247 - 08/29/11 01:16 AM (1 year, 9 months ago) |
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blujay said:
Jesus told me this I know, Cuz the Bible told me so...
There is something to be said for being functional, but not all Christians act like the phonies on family television.
I believe you can accept the Atonement, selectively use mind altering substances (many of which are mentioned in the Bible), and not be a hypocrite -- not that I can responsibly endorse many of my experiments.
And, I've seen Christians, who want to mind other peoples' business for them, on either side of the political spectrum, as well as anarchists and monarchists. No single party affiliation exclusively abuses His name for venal purposes.
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Re: Study: Social networking increases risk of teens smoking, drinking and using drugs [Re: veggie]
#15652388 - 01/11/12 10:58 PM (1 year, 5 months ago) |
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There is no doubt on this and even with or without social networking still got a high percentage of teenage drinking, smoking, etc.
Teen stage is where they are exploring new things and starting to shuffle so called "circle of friends" where they are accommodated and been treated like sisters or brothers. They want to experience things that they are curious of coming from alcohol, drugs and smoke.
Parents must guide them and able to correct what is not and could be. Not letting them explore what they want. Parents must educate them and not just school towards these vices to lessen teen at-risk.
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