While an under-16 social media ban offers simplicity and shifts responsibility to tech companies, it's an incomplete solution ...

A new Australian study links two or more hours of daily social media use in early adolescence with poorer mental health outcomes one year later.

Users of X, Elon Musk-owned social network formerly known as Twitter, reported multiple problems accessing the website and app Friday evening. Error reports for X ...

For more than a decade, social media has operated under a simple economic logic: platforms capture value, while users generate it. The billions of posts, photos, comments, and videos that fill the ...

In the early 2000s, social media was a baby. Cut to now: Statista (2023) predicts there should be around six billion social media users worldwide by 2027. While such rapid growth makes it difficult ...

Is social media harming my well-being? This is a question I often ask myself, wondering if I should keep using it or take a deliberate break from it. As someone who follows the science of well-being, ...

Much has been said about rises in mental health problems reported by younger people over the past 20 years. It is estimated that the prevalence of anxiety for 18-to-25-year-olds was about 8% in 2008, ...