Social media doesn’t affect your emotional life, study finds

A study just out from researchers at Durham University in the UK has found that reducing social media use doesnโ€™t have much of an effect on peopleโ€™s emotional life one way or another. Hard to believe? Let’s put this new finding into context.

Paper here: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0293467

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