Category Archives: Social Media & Psychology

Social Media Is a Defective Product, Lawsuit Contends

Posted on February 20, 2023 by kexincheng

Recently, California courts may have been debating an important issue: whether social media firms should be held accountable for allegedly harming Americans’ mental health. The lawsuit concerned whether social media algorithms might be regarded as a product under the law. … Continue reading →

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New Study Finds Greatest Social Media Effects on Teens at Puberty and Then Around Age 19

Posted on March 29, 2022 by sydhavely

Concern that social media use among teenagers is causing or contributing to high rates of depression, anxiety and suicide, is leading researchers to further parse the impact of social media platform use and intensity on such consequences. This is because, according to the NY … Continue reading →

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What is the Real World? Social Media’s Affect on Users’ Mental Health and Perception of Reality

Posted on February 7, 2022 by benpalmieri22

How do we know what “real life” is anymore? The effects of social media on those scrolling through photos/videos on platforms like Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter are much more complicated and negative than pure jealousy. Social media creates a clouded … Continue reading →

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Ways to Properly Use Social Media

Posted on January 30, 2022 by chandinishirupalli

According to (Cozolino et al., 2022), who talks about ways to decode and understand social media usage to use these platforms correctly. The article discusses how social media usage can lead to positive and negative impacts on mental health. It … Continue reading →

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“Liking” a death?

Posted on January 27, 2020 by Adam Bencan

Have we changed as a society how we mourn a loss with social media? I believe yes. There is no denying that social media has given us an immediate support system. Continue reading →

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Nothing to Report

Posted on March 25, 2019 by ray8t

The ongoing special counsel investigation report about the President and his administration, led by Bob Mueller, was submitted to the Attorney General last Friday. It was the biggest news story of the weekend and possibly the year. For the entire … Continue reading →

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Conversing Without a Smartphone–Is it Possible? And What are the Consequences, If Any?

Posted on April 1, 2018 by sydhavely

  There’s an Italian joke, “What do you call an Italian with no arms? Mute. This came to mind the other night when I was talking with a family member and not one minute passed by before he whipped out … Continue reading →

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Facebook in Hot Water…Again

Posted on March 19, 2018 by kerryvanderslice

Cambridge Analytica, a voter-profiling company  that worked on Trump’s 2016 campaign and its related company, Strategic Communications Laboratories, stole data from over 50 million Facebook users.     As a startup company, Cambridge secured a wealthy Republican donor, Robert Mercer, … Continue reading →

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Strava is Contagious–Who Knew? Christakis Was Right About Our Social Networks and Behavior

Posted on April 25, 2017 by sydhavely

    In their groundbreaking work on the social contagion associated with health behavior derived from the Framingham Heart Study, Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler found that behaviors of a friend, a friend of a friend, and even a friend … Continue reading →

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“What They Don’t Teach You in Business School”–Social Media Outrage

Posted on April 13, 2017 by sydhavely

There is a famous formula in chemical industry crisis communications PR.  It’s Risk = Hazard + Outrage.  That was 20 years ago coined by crisis communications expert Peter Sandman.  Every chemical industry PR person knows it by heart.  Now add … Continue reading →

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