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The dramatic recreation depicts just one of the potential harms highlighted in a recent US Surgeon General's Advisory on social media use and youth mental health. When I spoke with Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele, a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York, he discussed the staggering amount of time young people spend on social media and said the platforms can be all-consuming. The advisory underscores gaps in our knowledge around social media's effects on youth well-being and calls on society to take action now. [Extracted from the article]