{"id":256968,"date":"2026-04-08T04:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T04:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/256968\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T04:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T04:33:12","slug":"experts-warn-families-about-the-dangers-of-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/256968\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts warn families about the dangers of social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The conversation surrounding social media and its effects on children is gaining national attention after recent court cases involving major social media platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Many experts say social media platforms are designed to keep users engaged, leading to addictive behaviors.<\/p>\n<p>Children and teens are especially vulnerable to the addictive aspects of social media.<\/p>\n<p>Stanford Medicine Clinical Associate Professor Dr. Bradley Zicherman joined ARC Bakersfield to share what families can do to protect their children online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The conversation surrounding social media and its effects on children is gaining national attention&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-256968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}