{"id":4525,"date":"2017-05-22T17:49:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T17:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dementes.programate.pe\/?p=4525"},"modified":"2026-07-09T20:58:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T20:58:44","slug":"el-rol-de-las-redes-sociales-en-nuestra-salud-mental-el-caso-instagram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dementes.programate.pe\/en\/2017\/05\/22\/el-rol-de-las-redes-sociales-en-nuestra-salud-mental-el-caso-instagram\/","title":{"rendered":"The role of social media in our mental health: the case of Instagram"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few days ago, the organizations Royal Society for Public Health and Young Health Movement, both based in the United Kingdom, released a report entitled <\/strong><\/span><\/span>#StatusOfMind. <\/i><\/strong><\/span>This report analyzes the positive and negative effects that social media have on the mental health<\/strong><\/span> of young people<\/span><\/strong>. To this end, nearly 1,500 individuals between the ages of 14 and 24 were surveyed on how certain social media platforms affect their health and well-being.<\/span><\/p>\n

This report asserts that Instagram is the most detrimental application for the mental health of young people<\/span><\/strong>. With over 700 million users worldwide, this social network generates a significant negative impact, as it encourages young people to \"compare themselves against unrealistic, largely curated, filtered, and modified versions of reality,\" citing Matt Keracher, the report's author.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is a reality that has not gone unnoticed by the creators of this application. A few weeks ago, Instagram initiated a strong activism effort in favor of the mental health of its users<\/span><\/strong>, disseminating through the platform \"Instagram Together<\/a>\"<\/strong> various tools to contribute to the well-being of its community around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00abEvery day on Instagram, we see people sharing their mental health status and connecting with supportive communities,\u00bb says Instagram co-founder and CEO Kevin Systrom. \u00abFrom accounts dedicated to a specific issue to unique hashtags adopted by groups (for example #hereforyou, the campaign hashtag with which this initiative was launched), these communities are helping to make illnesses often invisible to friends and family visible through photos and videos<\/strong><\/span>.\u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n

Instagram Together provides information on the resources that Instagram offers to block certain options on the platform<\/span><\/strong> (for example, disabling comments, reporting specific users, among others); highlights the inspiring voices of mental health activist users<\/span><\/strong>; and provides help tools<\/strong><\/span> that allow users to request support for contacts they are concerned about.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00abWe have teams working 24 hours a day, seven days a week, reviewing these reports\u00bb, says Systrom. \u00abWe also display these resources when someone visits the page of a sensitive topic hashtag.\u00bb<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

At De-mentes, we celebrate this initiative: Instagram chose not to remain indifferent to the impact that its platform may have on the mental health of its users.<\/span><\/strong> On the contrary, its creators have been the architects of a pioneering effort that consolidates various tools to contribute to the well-being of its community,<\/span> promoting greater openness to discuss mental health and to become involved in this issue<\/b><\/span>. We hope that this effort will not be an isolated one and that an increasing number of organizations will join this movement. #TodosPorLaSaludMental<\/span><\/p>\n

For more information, please visit: \u00a0<\/span>www.instagram-together.com<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Conoce \u00abInstagram together\u00bb, la plataforma creada por Instagram para reducir su impacto en la salud mental de sus m\u00e1s de 700 millones de usuarios. <\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-4525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-articulos-noticias"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dementes.programate.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dementes.programate.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dementes.programate.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dementes.programate.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dementes.programate.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4525"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dementes.programate.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6638,"href":"https:\/\/dementes.programate.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525\/revisions\/6638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dementes.programate.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dementes.programate.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dementes.programate.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dementes.programate.pe\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}