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all adolescents report that they use social media "almost constantly" 15. <br /> Research also has <br /> compared social media use to diagnostic criteria for substance use <br /> dependencies, revealing that <br /> many adolescents report an inability to stop using social media, even when they <br /> want to, <br /> remarkable efforts to maintain access to social media, the use of social media to <br /> regulate their <br /> emotions, a need for increasing social media use to achieve the same level of <br /> pleasure (i.e., <br /> tolerance symptoms), withdrawal symptoms following abstinence, an significant <br /> impairment in <br /> their daily educational, social, work routines. A recent study revealed that over <br /> 54% of 11- 13- <br /> year-old youth reported at least one of these symptoms of problematic social <br /> media use 16 <br /> . About <br /> 85% of youth report spending more time than intended online and 61% reporting <br /> failing when <br /> trying to stop or reduce their use of social media 17 <br /> Alterations in Brain Development. Youths' biological vulnerability to technology <br /> and <br /> social media, and their resulting frequent use of these platforms, also has the <br /> potential to alter <br /> youths' neural development since our brains develop in response to the <br /> environment we live in. <br /> 10 <br />