Technology and Social Media

• •  Are Therapy Memes and Buzzwords Setting You Back? Fifty-two percent of mental health advice online is harmful. (Psychology Today, 3/8/25)

  • Is Social Media Making Us Grumpy? (Psychology Today, 2/5/25)

  •  Social Media and Loneliness: A Dangerous Pair - Scroll smarter to avoid increased loneliness on social media (Psychology Today, 1/26/25) 

  • How brain activity connects teens’ digital habits to anxiety symptoms (PsyPost, 1/21/25)

  • Teens can't get off their phones. Here's what some schools are doing about it (NPR, 12/3/24)

  • People who never post on social media and prefer to stay private usually have these 10 traits (Baseline, 11/29/24)

  • Developing Teen Brains and Social Media (Psychology Today, 7/24/24)

  • Internet addiction: What is it doing to teen brains? (StudyFinds, 6/29/24)

  • Life as a teen without social media isn’t easy. These families are navigating adolescence offline (Associated Press, 6/5/24)

  • Should You Leave Social Media? (Psychology Today, 6/2/24)

  • The ‘boring phone’: stressed-out gen Z ditch smartphones for dumbphones (The Guardian, 4/27/24)

  • 2 Ways to Avoid the Development of "Popcorn Brain" (Psychology Today, 4/22/24)

  • Teens, Social Media and Technology 2023 (Pew Research Center, 12/11/23)

  • What Gen Z really cares about when it comes to privacy (MalwarebytesLabs, 11/2/23)

  • "I Know What's Wrong With Me"  Social Media and the Lure of Self-Diagnosis (Psychotherapy Networker, Sept/Oct. 2023 Edition)

  • US surgeon general issues major advisory on social media use and teens' mental health (Good Morning America, 5/23/23)

  • Teens say social media is stressing them out. Here's how to help them. (NPR, 5/17/23)

  • APA panel issues recommendations for adolescent social media use (American Psychological Association, 5/9/23)

  • The Grim New Consensus on Social Media and Teen Depression (Intelligencer, 5/8/23)

  • The truth about teens, social media and the mental health crisis (NPR, 4/25/23) - A review of the latest research, concluding more research is needed, and making a compelling argument for media literacy, technology breaks, and caution - especially in certain age groups (there's a chart)

  • How to reclaim deep thinking: Ditch Google, trust yourself (Big Think, 4/12/23)

  • Reducing social media use by just 15 minutes a day can improve your health, says study (Medical XPress, 3/8/23)

  • 7 simple steps to a digital detox (Therapist.com, 2/17/23)

  • 10 things to know about how social media affects teens' brains (NPR, 2/16/23)