Data from a large, ongoing study of adolescents shows a link between increasing social media use and lower cognition and ...

The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, or JAMA, on Oct. 13, found that 9- to 13-year-olds ...

Most teenagers have 24/7 access to a popular drug. They are high off it for hours a day and carry it in their pockets everywhere they go. The drug? Social media. From making calls to getting ...

Longitudinal data shows increasing or high addictive use of social media and mobile phones in adolescents significantly raises the risk of suicidal behaviors and ideation.

Increasing use of social media throughout early adolescence is associated with lower performance in specific aspects of cognitive function.

In case parents needed another reason to police their children's screen time, new research shows that social media use is ...

A new study shows social media is having a negative impact on teenagers’ long-term memory and, ultimately, their test scores.

Children aged 9-13 who spent more time on social media performed worse on reading, memory and language tests two years later, ...

The unions claim that the US government is using a 'vast surveillance apparatus' to monitor the social media activity of ...