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Perfect life pressure: why you need time away from social media

The charity Young Minds is warning that exposure to endless postings on social media of other people鈥檚 photos of their seemingly perfect lives is damaging the mental health and happiness of young people in particular. It鈥檚 urging us all to have time away from social media. Simon Hoban has been asking students in Salford about how other people鈥檚 posts effect them.

First broadcast on You & Yours, 19 October 2017.

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