The term social media is generally used to describe internet-based websites and applications where users can participate in conversations, connect with other people, share their thoughts ...

Parents, scientists and the surgeon general are worried. But there isn’t even a shared definition of what social media is. By Claire Cain Miller There have been increasingly loud public warnings ...

For the first time, the American Psychological Association has issued recommendations for guiding teenager's use of social media. The advisory, released Tuesday, is aimed at teens, parents ...

Our recent research involved a study of 312 news articles about people who had been fired because of a social media post. These included stories about posts people had made themselves, such as a ...

Whether or not social media affects mental health, and to what degree, has long been up for debate. While some contend that social media connects the world, others argue that it feeds a culture of ...

WASHINGTON — Your kids may finally have to put their phone down after a bipartisan group of senators introduced legislation to set age restrictions on social media. The lawmakers introduced ...

She is also a Certified Stress Management Coach. We're all on social media. It's muscle memory -- when we need a brain break at work or we're standing in line, we pick up our phones and open one ...

You may be wondering how your company can take advantage of this new type of strategy. For starters, effective social media marketing strategies typically include creating engaging and shareable ...

“I felt like I [hadn’t] done anything.” Antonio, 13, managed to pull away from social media addiction, and his family noticed the shift. He started playing tennis again and going for walks ...

Social media could face an inflection point after a landmark federal advisory. After two decades of radically changing the way we interact with others, social media may be facing a turning point ...

Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. Social media marketing has become a vital component to the market mix of many businesses–large and small. After all, there are 4.9 ...

It's less pressure — they won't mind if I didn't blur out the pimple on my forehead — but this side of Instagram hardly fulfills the original free-flowing promise of social media. "There's ...