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In a survey of 179 university students in Turkey, higher social media addiction scores were linked to more ADHD symptoms and social anxiety. Self-esteem and screen time showed weaker links.
Read articleIn interviews, 24 Chinese parents of autistic children said short-video apps like Douyin taught them practical skills and gave them hope, but also fed confusion, comparison, urgency and sale…
Read articleA 2026 systematic review of 16 articles found that youth social-media suicide risk clustered around specific mechanisms, not raw screen time: emotional dysregulation appeared in 8 studies, s…
Read articleThe internet era has dramatically changed how people are exposed to traumatic events — uncensored video of violence, war, and disaster reaches civilian audiences within minutes of occurrence…
Read articleIn recent years, the medical community has observed a perplexing surge in cases of functional Tourette-like behaviors (FTB), attributed significantly to the influence of social media. Dubbed…
Read articleAs of 2013, there were over 500 million people using Facebook and roughly half of all users log-in to the social media platform on a daily basis. It is clearly the most popular social media …
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