If your child has experienced social media addiction, cyberbullying, sexual grooming, exploitation, inappropriate contact, threats, or any form of abuse through platforms like Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube, or other social media apps, you are not alone — and help is available right now.
Major social media companies are facing lawsuits for allegedly designing their platforms to be psychologically addictive, especially for children and teens.
These platforms often use behavioral science, endless scrolling, targeted notifications, algorithm-driven feeds, and other engagement tactics to keep young users online for hours. For many children, this can lead to serious emotional, psychological, social, and developmental harm.
Many parents only discover the damage after their child has already suffered anxiety, depression, isolation, declining school performance, sleep problems, body image issues, self-harm thoughts, or other serious consequences.
Also, if your child experienced any kind of online abuse, exploitation, grooming, threats, or inappropriate contact through a social media platform, you can start your claim now.
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Social media addiction disorder is a term used to describe compulsive or uncontrollable social media use that begins to interfere with a child’s mental health, sleep, school performance, relationships, and daily life.
Although “social media addiction disorder” is not currently a formal DSM-5 diagnosis, excessive and problematic social media use has been linked to sleep problems, attention issues, depression, anxiety, body image harm, and emotional distress in children and teens.
In simple terms, it happens when a child feels unable to stop scrolling, posting, checking likes, watching videos, or responding to notifications — even when social media is causing serious harm
If your child suffered depression, anxiety, self-harm, suicidal thoughts, eating disorder symptoms, hospitalization, academic decline, or other serious harm after heavy use of social media platforms, your family may qualify for a legal claim.
Compensation may be available for medical treatment, therapy, emotional distress, future care, educational disruption, pain and suffering, and, in tragic cases, wrongful death damages.
Eligibility depends on your child’s age, platform use, injuries, documentation, and state legal deadlines
A child who once enjoyed school, sports, or family activities becomes withdrawn, anxious, depressed, or emotionally unstable after heavy social media use.
A teenager stays up late scrolling, messaging, or watching videos, leading to exhaustion, mood swings, poor focus, and declining grades.
A child becomes obsessed with likes, comments, followers, filters, body image, or comparison content, causing low self-esteem, anxiety, disordered eating, or body shame.
A teen is cyberbullied through posts, comments, group chats, fake accounts, or shared images, leading to fear, humiliation, isolation, or panic attacks.
Families may be able to seek compensation for serious harm connected to social media addiction, including:
You may qualify for a social media addiction claim if:
