Social media platforms have been designed with profits in mind, rather than users’ well-being. To optimize our use of social media, we need to understand the significant psychological and well-being ...

Teens are entering the chat around social media. Adults often stress about the anxiety, self-esteem issues and social comparisons that teenagers may encounter on social media, but a new study is ...

The social media landscape is one of the areas where this impact is most evident. From automatic content moderation and personalized recommendations to the ads we watch and beyond, AI is reshaping ...

Social media can have serious impacts on mental health, especially for teenagers, including anxiety, depression and more. But it's not all bad.

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 ...

“While social media causes a lot of these body image issues and stuff, people have also been using it to counteract that bad stuff,” Shira Cohen, 14, chimed in.

Girls (48%) are more likely to say they’ve cut back on social media use than boys (40%), according to Tuesday’s report. General mental wellbeing among teens is a broader concern; 89% of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bipartisan group of senators push social media bill. Sens. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, Tom Cotton, R-Ark., Chris Murphy, D-Conn., and Katie Britt, R-Ala, introduced the Protecting Kids on Social Media ...