Social media has reshaped the way billions of people connect, communicate, and see themselves. 6 billion users worldwide as of 2024.That number is staggering - and so are the questions it raises.

Although social media can have benefits, it can also have significant negative consequences for mental health.

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 ...

Last week, United States Surgeon General Vivek Murthy called for a “warning label on social media platforms, stating that social media is associated with significant mental health harms for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I used to run mental health for the state of Indiana, but I’m a recovering lawyer by trade. That mismatch means people often ask ...

Along with identifying samples of 200 accounts with the largest number of followers on each of seven alternative social media sites, Pew Research Center also collected all of the posts produced by ...

Karnataka’s proposal to ban social media for under-16s sparks debate on child safety, mental health, privacy risks, ...

The problem is not that under-16s are uniquely vulnerable to encounters with screens. It is that all users are navigating systems engineered to optimise distraction at scale. Attention is not ...