Children and adolescents spend increasingly large parts of their social life connecting with each other via social networks sites. While this is clearly an achievement and may have helped many of them during difficult COVID‐19 lock downs, there is an ongoing political and scientific debate around the potential harm that (excessive) social media use may pose on young individuals. This editorial highlights a systematic review that was published on the topic of social media use and child and adolescent mental health, and sets the results of this review into a current research and public health perspective.

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社论：在儿童和青少年中使用社交媒体–是力量的好坏？

儿童和青少年通过社交网站在社交生活中花费的时间越来越多。虽然这显然是一项成就，并且可能在艰难的COVID-19锁定期间帮助了许多人，但围绕（过度）使用社交媒体可能对年轻人造成的潜在危害，目前正在进行政治和科学辩论。这篇社论重点介绍了有关社交媒体使用以及儿童和青少年心理健康的系统综述，并将该综述的结果纳入了当前的研究和公共卫生视角。