Is social media good for you, or bad? Well, it's complicated. A study of 12 million Facebook users suggests that using Facebook is associated with living longer - when it serves to maintain and enhance your real-world social ...
Oct 31, 2016
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The advent of online social networks has led to the rapid development of tools for understanding the interactions between members of the network, their activity, the connections, the hubs and nodes. But, any relationships ...
Jun 4, 2015
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The use of social networking sites may have implications for accessing online health information, finds a new longitudinal study from the Journal of Health Communication.
Sep 17, 2014
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Online dating scammers groom their victims by developing 'hyper-personal' relationships which can leave victims feeling doubly traumatised.
Apr 18, 2012
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Comparing yourself with others on Facebook is more likely to lead to feelings of depression than making social comparisons offline.
Nov 28, 2016
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A significant number of teenagers are sending and receiving sexually explicit cell phone photos, often with little, if any, awareness of the possible psychological, interpersonal, and sometimes legal consequences of doing ...
Jun 13, 2012
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In a joint research study conducted by the Department of Information Systems of the TU Darmstadt (Prof. Dr. Peter Buxmann) and the Institute of Information Systems of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Dr. Hanna Krasnova), ...
Jan 21, 2013
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How social media users create and monitor their online personas may hint at their feelings of self-esteem and self-determination, according to an international team of researchers.
Sep 6, 2013
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Many teenagers use mobile phones and social media almost constantly. And children are gaining access to these devices and platforms at increasingly younger ages.
Aug 27, 2019
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Are younger adults who cultivate numerous connections with friends, families and acquaintances through online social networks any happier than older adults who have smaller circles of face-to-face relationships? The answer ...
Nov 8, 2019
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