As part of Mental Health Awareness month, I was recently discussing with colleagues whether social media has, in fact, harmed the mental health of our children and whether it is really all that different from growing up with network television, the first video games, or dial-up internet in the olden days.

 The American Psychological Association had just released a health advisory on social media use in adolescence which suggests that the effects of social media on adolescents is highly varied, based on all kinds of individual and contextual factors,