Something that was designed to bring us all together is, in many cases, driving us further apart, and science suggests that the end result is loneliness and isolation. The answer isn’t to abandon social media entirely, but to make sure your offline relationships don’t suffer because of it...
For many of us, social media is a big part of daily life. It can be the main way we perceive the lives of people around us. But evidence increasingly links social media use to feelings of loneliness and other negative emotions, and many users are aware of this. So why are we addicted...
Loneliness and social isolation are international public health concerns that particularly affect the ageing society globally [1]. Loneliness and social isolation are distinct but interrelated concepts. According to Valtorta and Hanratty [2], one of the most widely used definitions of loneliness constitut...
Head versus heart: social media reveals differential language of loneliness from depressionWe study the language differentially associated with loneliness and depression using 3.4-million Facebook posts from 2986 individuals, and uncover the statistical associations of survey-based depression and loneliness ...
Review of research relating social media use and mental health The use of social media can be viewed as both a protective and a risk factor for mental health. For example, the support gained from social media may ameliorate feelings of loneliness or lack of offline social interaction, and help...
I was already concerned about the impact of technology on social connections. As I wrote about in Kill Process, there is an epidemic of loneliness in the world, and most especially in the US. But in the face of the global pandemic, our lives have been further irrevocably altered. The way...
The question whether social media use benefits or undermines adolescents’ well-being is an important societal concern. Previous empirical studies have mostly established across-the-board effects among (sub)populations of adolescents. As a result, it is
but statistically significant negative mean correlation between time spent on social media and psychological wellbeing, as indicated by self-reports of depression, loneliness, self-esteem, andlife satisfaction(Huang, 2017). Social media stress (van der Schuur et al., 2019) has also been examined,...
During COVID-19 lockdowns, huge swaths of teens experienced an increase in sleep and family time. These changes were much more dramatic than the 15-minute reduction in daily social media use, and according to Twenge herself, these two factors were responsible for the improvement in mental heal...
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