Major college study links heavy social media use with higher odds of loneliness

Using social media for two hours a day does not seem like that much. It happens between classes, with a few scrolls on your ...
Fox News

Excessive social media use has many of the same effects as substance abuse, says expert

The average American spends nearly 2½ hours per day on social media, and that number more than doubles for teens, studies have shown. For many people, the reliance on social media can feel much like ...
University of Delaware

Social media use and academic achievement

UD Associate Professor Mellissa Gordon finds that frequent social media use is associated with decreased academic achievement among early adolescents While most people think about older teens and ...
Forbes

Is Social Media The New Google? Gen Z Turn To Google 25% Less Than Gen X When Searching

Katherine Haan, MBA, is a Senior Staff Writer for Forbes Advisor and a former financial advisor turned international bestselling author and business coach. For more than a decade, she’s helped small ...
Psychology Today

Benefits and Challenges of Social Media Use for Teens

This is the second of two posts devoted to the contentious issue of social media use by teens. Some researchers have reported negative correlations between social media use and indices of mental ...
The Baltimore Sun

Despite risks, most teens are regular social media users, have used chatbots

The Pew Research Center has found that a majority of teens use YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat. And, for the first time, researchers asked teens about their use of artificial intelligence ...
Monthly Prescribing Reference

Safe Social Media Use: A Clinician’s Guide

Credit: Getty Images. Providing physicians with tools to minimize the risks associated with sharing information via social media will help to improve the distribution of information and avoid privacy ...