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THE LANCET: School phone policies and their association with mental wellbeing, phone use, and social media use (SMART Schools): a cross-sectional observational study
Apr. 16, 2025 Background Poor mental health in adolescents can negatively affect sleep, physical activity and academic performance, and...
JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS: Problematic social media use and relationship to mental health characteristics in youth from the Texas Youth Depression and Suicide Research Network (TX-YDSRN)
Apr. 16, 2025 Highlights Analyzes the link between social media use and mental health in depressed youth 40.3 % reported problematic...
PNAS NEXUS: Blocking mobile internet on smartphones improves sustained attention, mental health, and subjective well-being
Apr 15, 2025 Smartphones enable people to access the online world from anywhere at any time. Despite the benefits of this technology,...
MIXED FEELINGS: THE PLATFORMISATION OF MOODS AND VIBES
Mar. 19, 2025 By Ludmila Lupinacci, University of Leeds Over the past few years, digital platforms from different sectors have started...
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: Social Media and Youth Mental Health
Mar. 15, 2025 Social media presents a meaningful risk of harm to youth, while also providing benefits The types of use and content...
Association of Habitual Checking Behaviors on Social Media With Longitudinal Functional Brain Development
Mar. 15, 2025 Key Points Question Is adolescents’ frequency of checking behaviors on 3 social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram,...
CNN _ Ex-Meta executive: ‘People deserve to know what this company is really like’
Mar. 12, 2025 Meta is once again facing allegations from a former employee that a growth-at-all-costs culture has caused offline harm. A...
THE GUARDIAN: It’s the age of regret: gen Z grew up glued to their screens, and missed the joy of being human
Mar. 9, 2025 A generation who came of age online now feel deprived of real connections. The upside is they are doing something about it I...
Screen time and manic symptoms in early adolescents: prospective findings from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study
Mar. 9, 2025 Purpose This study aimed to examine prospective associations between screen time and manic symptoms in early adolescents,...
NEW YORK POST: Excessive phone and screen use tied to manic symptoms in pre-teens, study finds
Mar. 9, 2025 A recent study from the University of California, San Francisco, indicates that pre-teens with greater exposure to certain...
Weaponising Social Media, Mental Health and Surveillance Capitalism
Mar. 3, 2025 Individuals, executives lived experiences, and subjective information about every single action (ethical concern) you take...
FINANCIAL TIMES: Young people are hanging out less — it may be harming their mental health
Jan. 26, 2025 What do the loneliness epidemic, falling rates of adolescent drinking and dating, and worsening mental health among...
A systematic review: the influence of social media on depression, anxiety and psychological distress in adolescents
ABSTRACT While becoming inextricable to our daily lives, online social media are blamed for increasing mental health problems in younger...
RETURN TO OBSCURANTISM AND NEO-LIBERALISM THROUGH HATRED
Jan. 9, 2025 The changes to Meta’s global policies on hateful content now include allowing users to call transgender people “it”, with...
ZUCKERBERG THROWS WIDE OPEN THE DOORS OF LIBERALISM THROUGH HATE
Dec. 8, 2024 Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to ditch factcheckers on Facebook and “prioritise free speech” weeks before Donald Trump returns...
THE GUARDIAN: Meta is killing off its own AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles
Instagram profile of ‘proud Black queer momma’, created by Meta, said her development team included no Black people. (...) While these...
Exploring the Relationship Between Social Media Use and Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety Among Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Narrative Review
Authors: Naila Saleem , Paul Young , and SamanYousuf Social media use is ubiquitous to the lives of children and adolescents. The body of...
FINANCIAL TIMES: Meta envisages social media filled with AI-generated users
Dec. 28, 2024 Meta is betting that characters generated by artificial intelligence will fill its social media platforms in the next few...
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