Social media use has now been compared to smoking by medical professionals as the UK government enters the last stages of its ...

More than half of the doctors who took part in the research saw at least one case of harm that could be linked to social media and technology devices every week ...

Young people's use of social media is a public health emergency akin to smoking, the chair of the Academy of Medical Royal ...

The use of social media is contributing to declining attention spans, emotional volatility, and compulsive behaviors among young people, reveals a new report by Nanyang Technological University, ...

Adolescents who use social media such as Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube and TikTok every day are more likely to engage in risky behavior, according to a new study. Children as young as 10 are at greater ...

UD Associate Professor Mellissa Gordon finds that frequent social media use is associated with decreased academic achievement among early adolescents While most people think about older teens and ...

My friend Alli, a woman in her 20s, described an interesting emotional arc to her Instagram use. As she scrolled, she found some of the posts inspiring, but after a while, she noticed that spending ...

Providing physicians with tools to minimize the risks associated with sharing information via social media will help to improve the distribution of information and avoid privacy violations. Technology ...

A number of states are moving to regulate social media use among children and teens. New York is the latest state with a new law that would allow parents to block their children from getting posts ...

Increased social media use in early adolescence is linked to higher depressive symptoms a year later, suggesting a one-way relationship. The study provides longitudinal data on younger adolescents, ...