Social media usage among teens is more prevalent than ever before. In recent years, researchers have begun investigating how much social media affects teen weight concerns and body image issues. A new ...

Strava logs all your fitness achievements — and then some. By Steve Knopper On a beautiful fall Friday in Denver, someone named Wyatt stole my Local Legend crown. “There it goes!” chirped an email ...

Australia's world-first social media ban for children has taken effect, with throngs of teenagers waking up to find their accounts have gone dark. Others tell BBC they have already snuck past barriers ...

Australia's social media ban for people aged under 16 has officially started, marking a world-first push to protect children from phone addiction and online harms. From now on, a group of social media ...

It’s August, and a show of hands in an auditorium filled with 300 students at All Saints Anglican School in Australia shows that few of the Grade 9 and 10 students sitting in plush red seats had heard ...

Around the world, governments are advancing strict age-verification requirements for social media, and the United States may not be far behind. A growing combination of international policy shifts and ...

We’ve all heard how social media is devastating teen mental health — but a shocking new report confirms it’s robbing pretty much everyone of the ability to focus. The meta-study from Griffith ...

What is the most highly rated social app in various countries around the world? To find out, researchers at Mailsuite examined the global ratings of 1,493 popular apps. An infographic (below) covers ...

Social media and young people, young people and social media. As new platforms emerge and smartphones become near-ubiquitous, teenagers’ use of social media spirals out of control. According to ...

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If you have ever sworn off social media for a week or two because you sensed it was feeding your anxiety or dampening your mood, you may be on to something. A new study out last week in JAMA Network ...