Problem: How can I make notes with bullet points in this paragraph? Risky social support Another way in which the Internet can increase children's and adolescents' mental health problems is by fostering communication between individuals with problems. Researchers have found that adolescents solicit and share information about their problems-for example, self-injurious behavior-via online message boards (Whitlock et al., 2006). These researchers identified more than 400 self-injury message boards, most populated by females who described themselves as between 12 and 20 years of age. Findings indicated that online interactions clearly provided social support for otherwise isolated adolescents but also suggested that online interchanges normalized and encouraged self-injurious behavior and added potentially lethal behaviors to self-injurers' repertoires. Others report similar mixed outcomes for online social support (Best et al., 2014). Need Assignment Help?