Samantha Kelly is a freelance writer with a focus on consumer technology, AI, social media, Big Tech, emerging trends and how they impact our everyday lives. Her work has been featured on CNN ...

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 ...

Two recent studies by O’Day et al. and Zhang et al. shed light on how social media use and loneliness are linked. Spoiler: It’s complicated. But don’t worry: This isn’t another “delete ...

Last week, the Australian government legislated a national minimum age of 16 years for opening accounts on major social media platforms. The legislation was built on the increasing recognition ...

UD Associate Professor Mellissa Gordon finds that frequent social media use is associated with decreased academic achievement among early adolescents While most people think about older teens and ...

I finally asked, ‘What am I doing?’” Many of us get lost in social media. Some data indicate that, worldwide, the average adult spends more than 2.5 hours per day immersed in social apps.

Social media can be harmful. That's something all behavioral researchers can agree on. There is much less consensus on how exactly its harmful use is defined, and whether or not there’s a ...

In this article, we will look at the 20 biggest social media mistakes by companies in 2023. If you want to skip our detailed analysis of the social media industry, you can go directly to 5 Biggest ...

Like any other technology, whether nuclear power or the printing press, social media is only as good as the people who use it—and over the past decade, we haven’t exactly used it well.

One of the biggest concerns parents have is how to help their children navigate social media. It’s not surprising this is a question front and center in our minds. A recent Pew Research Center report ...

But not everybody around him gets it. Some people rib him with a ‘Wow, good for you’ or emotion-dump about their own social media hang-ups. “Addiction is the most interesting of diseases ...

Asos has named Criteo its exclusive ad-tech partner for endemic brand advertising as the online fashion giant builds out its retail media network, according to a press release. Criteo will enhance ...