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Feb. 18, 2020 – Galen joined Know Your Value co-founder and โMorning Joeโ co-host Mika Brzezinski and Cosmopolitan Editor-in-Chief Jessica Pels to talk about the science behind social media and the way it can impact a young personโs development. โI think weโre just starting to get the information about whatโs happening to peopleโs brains,โ Galen told Know Your Value. โWeโre seeing more depression. Weโre seeing more loneliness. Weโre seeing more anxiety. And weโre seeing the need, the urge, sort of the desperation to be on social media to get the likes to the level that itโs affecting moods.โ
Both Galen and Pels, whose brand reaches 80 million young people on social media, voiced concerns that kids arenโt being taught how to handle the deluge of information thatโs constantly being delivered to their smartphones, including the mood-altering triggers of social media.
โWhatโs interesting about my readership of young women is, theyโre used to absorbing content and information all the time,โ Pels said, singling out the push notifications that keep many of her young readers informed of breaking news. โWhether or not theyโre equipped to handle it, I donโt know that Iโm equipped to handle it.โ
