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The average user spends roughly two hours, 39 minutes on social media daily, adding up to more than 40 days a year.

Account manager Matt Richards, 23, deleted all his social media apps from his phone last year, and was surprised to find that his life changed for the better. Richards had been using a smartphone ...

Last fall, we featured an extensive interview with Petter Törnberg of the University of Amsterdam, who studies the underlying mechanisms of social media that give rise to its worst aspects: the ...

Social media is an important part of the lives of adolescents and children. Increased access to and use of social media has raised concerns among parents, physicians, public health officials, and ...

Longstanding concerns exist about excessive social media use causing mental health problems. The best evidence for this view comes from longitudinal studies showing that earlier social media use leads ...

For years, social media and video apps weren’t quite able to overtake good old television as Americans’ most-used source for news. That’s finally changed, according to Oxford’s Reuters Institute for ...

Social media is a way for people to feel connected, playing a large role in the lives of youths today. However, its prevalence has led to its effects, particularly on young people, being widely ...

The UK’s under 16 social media ban has raised privacy concerns over age verification, digital ID, surveillance and children moving to less regulated platforms.