For years, I’d spend several hours a day scrolling through social media on my phone — while lying in my bed, watching TV, commuting on the subway, waiting in supermarket lines, and pretty much any ...

"What advice would you give to young people who are new to social media?" "Have you ever felt like you need to change your social media use...?" Teens and young adults from across the country answered ...

Late last month, the U.S. surgeon general issued an advisory—a format reserved for public-health issues that demand the nation’s immediate attention. “Nearly every teenager in America uses social ...

Account manager Matt Richards, 23, deleted all his social media apps from his phone last year, and was surprised to find that his life changed for the better. Richards had been using a smartphone ...

We hear a lot about how social media is terrible for teenagers’ mental health. A growing number of laws and lawsuits point the finger at social media companies as playing a major role in driving the ...

Cowritten by Heather Widdows and Jessica Sutherland, University of Warwick How often do you find you’ve lost an hour passively scrolling through social media? You only sat down for a moment, to take a ...

When I tell people my research focuses on social media, sleep, and suicide prevention, they often assume I’m going to tell them that social media is harmful or simply "bad" for teens. They expect me ...

Lori and Avery Schott wondered about the right age for their three children to have smartphones. For their youngest, Annalee, they settled on thirteen. They’d held her back in school a year, because ...

What's the best age for kids to start using social media? Parents have struggled to answer this question for years — and it's taking on a renewed urgency after this week's warning from the U.S.

After seven years at Snapchat, I finally learned the truth about why our most important apps seem destined to disappoint us. After seven years at Snapchat, I finally learned the truth about why our ...