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Social media has a dominant presence across the globe—and has forever changed the landscape of human interaction, providing unimagined opportunities for people to connect and share information on ...

Preteens using increasing amounts of social media perform poorer in reading, vocabulary and memory tests in early adolescence compared with those who use no or little social media. That's according to ...

Pharmaceutical companies aren’t taking full advantage of the captive audiences that can be found on various social media platforms, according to doctors who have become experts in the space. In a ...

Many adults—from teachers to the U.S. surgeon general —will tell you that social media has the potential to dangerously erode K-12 students’ mental health. School districts and lawmakers alike have ...

Social media can be a positive way to form community, and it can also be exhausting and negative. These four women share how they best used social media during their breast cancer journeys Alex ...

Presidents these days and their darn phones. “No one has used social media like this before as a president,” said Brendan Brown, a San Diego-based engineer who launched the Trump Twitter Archive in ...

I have four kids − three teenagers and a preteen. And I've banned them from using (most) social media. Social media is addictive and exposes kids to an array of distractions and vices. I just don't ...