Social media platforms used to be about communication between friends. The business model is to increase the time people spend on their apps and increase ad revenue.

Social media isn’t likely to strengthen your friendships, even your close ones, and could even make you lonelier found a new study focused on adults.

The Meta monopoly trial has raised a question that Meta hopes the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) can’t effectively answer: How important is it to use social media to connect with friends and family ...

There is no question that social media has had an effect on our society and culture, in particular on our social lives. Our social networks are no longer limited to the people we meet face to face.

Since its founding, Facebook has described itself as a kind of public service that fosters relationships. In 2005, not long after the site’s launch, its co-founder Mark Zuckerberg described the ...

Social media "friends" don't help overcome loneliness, according to new research. The first-of-its-kind study suggests that all of the strangers people befriend online are not actually helping them to ...

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Two weeks ago, I decided to delete my social media apps and commit to a prolonged period away from digital communities. I arrived at the decision the same day that I interviewed George Jerjian, author ...