How Technology, Social Media, and Current Events Profoundly Affect Adolescents - Paperbackby Mark A. Goldstein M. D. (Author), Myrna Chandler Goldstein (Author) It is an extraordinary time for adolescents. Social media has a profound positive and negative influence on adolescents, drugs of abuse are readily available, social and sexual mores are changing, discussion about many aspects of racism is more prominent than ever, and surveys indicate that the prevalence of mental illness in teens is higher than any previous time. How Technology,