While much has been said about the potential detrimental effects of spending too much time on the internet, a new study has found that teens who spend time online are better at coping with stress. The research, published in Clinical Psychological Science , studied adolescents aged living in low socioeconomic settings.
The participants were given iPhones to use as they would their own phones. They were asked to report the hours they used their devices, as well as any stressors, and their emotions at least five times a day for a week.
From this, the researchers at Griffith University's Menzies Health Institute and School of Applied Psychology separated the participants into those who used the phones excessively, moderately or did not use them at all. The teens who reported moderate phone use in the hours after a stressful situation recovered from this more readily and experienced smaller surges in negative emotions, like sadness and worry, compared to those who didn't use technology or who routinely used technology as a coping mechanism.
Because adolescents in disadvantaged settings tend to have fewer local supports, the study sought to find out whether online engagement helped reduce their stress,'' lead author Kathryn Modecki said.
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Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. People around the world accommodate thousands of hours spent on social media and other apps. Teens spend an average of nine hours a day online. A lot of teens admit they overdo their time on social media. Kids aged 8 to 12 spend an average of 6 hours daily, which is still too much.
Statistics on time spent on social media indicate the youngest tend to be Instagram fanatics. Six Degrees is widely considered to be the first social media platform. It was created back in by Andrew Weinreich and the site was launched the following year. Six Degrees combined popular features we know today like creating a profile, adding friends, etc. A couple of similar websites emerged in the next decade. Myspace was launched in — the same year LinkedIn came to existence — and was the largest social networking site in the world from to Kudos to those who remember it and used it back then.
But times changed. Facebook came in and basically killed the platform , which is now ranked 4,th by total web traffic. Do you tweet or do you leave it to the birds? Currently, more than million people use Twitter every month, although the figures dropped compared to mid and late Twitter is a very influential social media.
According to a study , governments and heads of state maintain an official presence on Twitter. It may be a challenge for Snapchat to penetrate older demographics. The main users are currently between 13 and 34 years, with people under the age of 25 spending the most time on Snapchat.
India has the highest average time spent on social media, amounting to 17 hours per week. A large proportion of that time is spent on WhatsApp. The amount of time spent on social media should be kept to a golden standard.
Are you looking for a job? Log in to LinkedIn. Are you looking to recruit? Do you want a sandwich? Just a joke, but you get the point. LinkedIn was created way back in and came a long way to become what it is right now. Time spent on social media can be very useful on LinkedIn, especially for businesses and job seekers.
Social media time on Pinterest is really important for millennials. In , three online platforms other than Facebook — YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat — are used by sizable majorities of this age group.
The shares of teens who use Twitter and Tumblr are largely comparable to the shares who did so in the survey. For the most part, teens tend to use similar platforms regardless of their demographic characteristics, but there are exceptions. Notably, lower-income teens are more likely to gravitate toward Facebook than those from higher-income households — a trend consistent with previous Center surveys.
For details on social media platform use by different demographic groups, see Appendix A. YouTube and Reddit were not included as options in the survey but were included in the current survey. In addition, the survey required respondents to provide an explicit response for whether or not they used each platform, while the survey presented respondents with a list of sites and allowed them to select the ones they use. Given the opportunity to explain their views in their own words, teens who say social media has had a mostly positive effect tended to stress issues related to connectivity and connection with others.
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