{"id":234009,"date":"2026-04-21T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/technology-and-social-media-how-is-it-really-affecting-your-brain-the-griffin-gazette\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T14:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:50:08","slug":"technology-and-social-media-how-is-it-really-affecting-your-brain-the-griffin-gazette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/technology-and-social-media-how-is-it-really-affecting-your-brain-the-griffin-gazette\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology and social media: How is it really affecting your brain? \u2013 The Griffin Gazette"},"content":{"rendered":"

Technology and social media: How is it really affecting your brain? \u2013 The Griffin Gazette<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/lahsgriffingazette.com\/29956\/features\/technology-and-social-media-how-is-it-really-affecting-your-brain\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-04-21 14:35:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: lahsgriffingazette.com<\/a><\/p>\n

LOS ALAMITOS, Calif. \u2014 Technology has impacted our lives in so many ways. Now, it is normal for people to be on their devices for most of the day. Even kids as young as two years old are being introduced to electronics such as tablets and smartphones. This behavior in our society has been shown to cause detrimental changes in our brains and our health.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to pediatrician Michael Rich,<\/span> director of the Center on Media and Child Health at Boston Children\u2019s Hospital, the human brain is constantly forming neural connections, and screen stimulation can disrupt that process. Studies have also shown that sleep is essential to brain development, and using devices that emit blue light before bedtime can disrupt sleep patterns. Many teens often stay up texting or staring at screens in bed, not realizing that this is depriving them of the deep Rapid Eye Movement sleep that is essential for processing and storing information from the day.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSo even if they stay awake in algebra class, they may not remember what happened in class yesterday,\u201d said Rich in a Harvard Medical School article.<\/span><\/p>\n

Social media platforms such as Instagram, TikTok and YouTube thrive on adolescents staying on their platforms for extended periods of time. Since a young person\u2019s brain lacks a fully developed self-control system, it is hard for them to stop their obsessive behavior, such as scrolling through many 30-second-long videos on these platforms. While these short-form videos, known as Reels on Instagram and Shorts on YouTube, may be extremely entertaining and easy to watch, they are also very damaging to one\u2019s brain.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no substance that [students] are actually getting from watching those videos. There could be things that [they] potentially could learn, but there are so many things that are also negative that a student might see on social media that it\u2019s almost as if it can impact their brain in terms of how they interpret information,\u201d said Los…<\/span><\/p>\n

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