Adolescents who use social media earlier are more likely to experiment with substances such as alcohol, tobacco and marijuana ...

Adolescents who spend at least two hours a day on social media are more likely to experience depressive symptoms and poorer wellbeing, with the strongest effects in early adolescence, according to new ...

Excessive social media use can lead to social isolation through reduced face-to-face interaction, social comparison, ...

A 10 year cohort study in Australian adolescents has found that higher levels of social media use, particularly by those aged 12-13 years, are associated with small but significant increases in the ...

A new Australian study links two or more hours of daily social media use in early adolescence with poorer mental health outcomes one year later.

Legacy social media sites have been designed to keep us hooked to our devices, eyes glued endlessly to retina-frying feeds of memes and dumb videos in order to create more engaged platforms for ...