Current reporting, research and professional developments across Social Media, curated for psychologists and behavioral-health professionals.
The findings suggest that delaying children's first exposure may be a promising policy, particularly if combined with education on healthy digital habits.
The age at which adolescents first start using social media may be more important to their mental health than whether they have a social media account at all, new UNSW Sydney research suggests.
MSD Lawyers reports on the rising concerns of social media addiction, linking it to mental health issues in youth and ongoing legal actions against major platforms.
Australian researchers from UNSW Sydney found that the age at which adolescents start using social media is linked to higher symptoms of anxiety and depression. The study suggests that delaying social ...
Across 11 years of data, depression rose once social media use passed about 2.5 hours a day, then climbed with each additional hour.
At licensed child-care facilities, screen time will be limited to 30 minutes or less, with none for children ages two and under; it must also have an educational purpose, be age-appropriate, be guided ...
Proposals for curbing social media use among children have wide support, but critics say they are ineffective.
Spending hours each day on social media may be more closely connected to depression than many other parts of daily life, according to a large study that examined more than a decade of survey data.
As Meta agrees to daily screen-time limits, nighttime restrictions and changes to engagement-driven features, Johns Hopkins expert Dr Johannes Thrul says the measures are “a real step in the right dir ...
Opinion: Social media’s negative effects are well-documented, but it might also hold the key to a huge amount of crucial public health data, researchers at the University of Maryland write.
Meta and other social media platforms face lawsuits alleging they foster addictive use among young people. Now regulators are struggling to rein in their engagement-driven business models.
Meta and other social media platforms face lawsuits alleging they foster addictive use among young people. Now regulators are struggling to rein in their engagement-driven business models.
There is “little association” between the use of technology and mental health issues. This is according to a study of over 430,000 10 to 15-year-olds. This contradicts the common belief that ...
As students return to school this week, a Chicago nonprofit is raising questions about how schools respond to cyberbullying.
For users under 18, Meta announced it would introduce a default two-hour daily time limit, restrictions on use during nighttime and school hours and a ban on cosmetic surgery and extreme makeup ...
Meta (which owns Facebook and Instagram) and Google (which owns YouTube) were recently held liable for $3 million each in one of the nation’s ...
Social media use is a better predictor of depression than many other common factors, such as one's job and educational background or time spent on other activities, such as playing video games, ...
Meta Platforms agreed to make major changes to Facebook and Instagram and pay up to $18 billion to resolve claims by most U.S. states that it designed those platforms to addict children and misled ...
Montgomery County has filed a lawsuit against major social media companies, including Meta, Snap, TikTok, and Google, to reduce the negative impact of social media on children’s mental health and well ...
California Attorney General Rob Bonta and coalition of 51 attorneys unveiled a proposed settlement with social media giant Meta — parent of Facebook, Intstagram and WhatsApp — for up to $17 billion ...
The social media giant settled with 47 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories, and agreed to make major changes to its products over claims its platforms endangered children.
That would be similar in scope to the 1996 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement, whereby cigarette companies pledged $206 billion to medical treatment and anti-smoking messaging, while agreeing to ...
So, it's no surprise, then, that we're all on the hunt for ways to limit our scrolling - and it's a problem I've been increasingly confronted with amid the screen-time ban for kids that's due to come ...
Teaching young people how to be savvy with TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram and YouTube may be parents’ best bet for helping their kids skirt some deleterious effects of social media overuse.
Snapchat failed to protect children from inappropriate content and compulsive use — those are the allegations in a lawsuit announced by Pennsylvania Attorney Ge ...
From TikTok bans and age verification requirements to media literacy lessons in schools, U.S. states are exploring a wide range of strategies to protect young people online.
New Jersey’s newly enacted three-bill package will establish a research center dedicated to studying social media’s effects on young people and create new online privacy and safety protections for ...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Social media can be a lot for adults: both in way too much overall and as a benefit. “It can be very much a blessing, fostering connection,” Sioux Falls counselor Katrina ...
With the trial of Lindsay Clancy, a Massachusetts mother allegedly involved in the deaths of her three children, nearing its conclusion, social media has ...
In a survey of U.S. teens conducted by the Pew Research Center in the fall of 2024, 48 percent of Americans aged 13 to 17 said that social media has a mostly negative effect on people of their age, up ...
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