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 doesn’t have much of an effect on people’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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